Information designing is plying a big role in current designing industry. In present people need information daily. For example Route directions, maps, it can be a steps of mixing paint, Number of Votes for idle or a politician, who is the leading goal sorcerer, league standing, maps and even every little thing is everything is information. Firstly information can be numbers and letters. So the challenge is how I should represent this very attractive and understandable manner to particular target audience. Rather than showing these bar chart or a pie chart designer should be very creative. This is where the Information designing begins. Legibility, typography, colours, identity, layout will be the same rules for the Game
Information design is primarily about perception, how people translate what they see and hear into knowledge. The Art of Instructional Design displays an entertaining array of the most ingenious, stupid, beautiful, and horrible visual solutions that instruction designers and illustrators have invented to help us handle modern technology and everyday products.
These works of art show us how to floss out teeth properly, where to insert the printer cartridge, which button to press to transfer a phone call, how to use chopsticks, how to open a milk carton, and how to exit the plane in case of an emergency landing. Open Here also includes a diverse sampling of images: the finest cut-away drawing of a truck's diesel engine, a revealing expanded view of a model airplane, and detailed full-color photographs of a sewing machine in a 19th-century manual.He is a professor of Visual Information design at the University of Technology in Delft, The Netherlands. 
Paul Mijksenaar is a designer of visual information and is founder and director of the international design bureau Mijksenaar, based in Amsterdam and New York. Mijksenaar is a specialist in creating visual information systems, such as wayfinding signage for railway stations and airports including New York's JFK, LaGuardia and Newark, and Amsterdam's Schiphol. His work for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey was echoed in the set design for Steven Spielberg's film The Terminal.Besides his practice he is also a professor in Visual Information Design at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He also writes a monthly article in the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad about everyday problems and solving them using information design.
As a designer it is important to understand impotence of information designing and importance of creating your own visual language. For that your own way of using font and illustration style can be very useful. In Paul Mijksenaar’s designs contains a uniqueness, same time It’s easy to identify this design of Paul Mijksenaar.-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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http://sk.aphelis.net/post/131943988/open-here-the-art-of-instructional-design
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