Editorial published In: Information Design Journal
Vol. 29:3 (2024) ► pp.199–203
Editorial
Exploring problems of information design
The ties that bind us
This article is available free of charge.
Published online: 21 August 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/idj.00022.sch
https://doi.org/10.1075/idj.00022.sch
Article outline
- 1.Commitment to evaluating what works
- 2.Use of multiple research methods
- 3.Concern with ethics and social justice
- 4.Curiosity about people as they engage with language — writing, visual design, typography
- 5.Seeing these ties in practice
- 5.1Analyzing publications about user-interface design and user-experience design to trace their growth
- 5.2Designing typography to improve distance reading for people with low vision
- 5.3Uncovering students’ needs for wayfinding maps on campus
- 5.4Designing specialized information for budding experts in industrial and product design
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