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October 07, 2003
Information on the Assembly Line
Rats...it's a class night, and I've got to catch up on a couple chapters. So I can't do much more than make a quick blog entry for Jason Nichols' very intriguing looking masters thesis called Information on the Assembly Line (subtitled A review of Information Design and its Implications for Technical Communicators). Here's the PDF link if you prefer that to his HTML version (which is nicely designed). I jumped right to the Defining Information Design chapter, and appreciated this comment for its general relevance in UX/ED/ID/IA: While very few people seem to agree on just what information design is, everyone does agree that the reason it is so hard to define is that it draws from so many other disciplines and professions. ... As Robert Jacobson explains, the emerging field of information design possesses very little research, experimentation results, case studies, or anecdotal evidence that it can call its own. It thereby lacks a "coherent corpus of rules or principles a novice can obey". I can't wait to dive into this and find out why the final chapter is called The Need to Learn Database Design Principles. Hmmmm. BTW, thanks to Peter for another great tip.
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