Information/Instructional Design Examples

Apple Iphone Icons

• These simple yet effective apple icons used for the apple iphone are able to transform complex information into simple and manageable data. The use of colurs, simple graphics and "grid like" layout of the icons make the apple iphone an extremely easy phone to use. The icons are simple yet beautifully done to show what and where in the phone personal data or information is kept.  
  

London Underground Tube Map

• This London Underground Tube map has extremely complex and important information. Designed by Harry Beck, the use of coloured geometric lines, structured text and basic symbols representing tube stops, interchanges, disabled wheelchair access etc the user is able to easily navigate their way around the city of London. The very important use of a legend in the bottom of the diagram gives the map logic. The legend demonstrates what colours represents what tube line and the key symbols enable the user to know further information about the tube stations.
  

Lego Mario Man

• This  instructional design example uses simple colours, small arrows and a 2D illustration to enable the viewer is able to understand which lego parts fit into one another. There are no numbers and the language although foreign is minimal, however the user is still able to understand what components fit into one another with great clarity.
  

Making toast for Beginners

Step by Step Instructions on how to make toast

1. Have bread out ready to toast
   
2. Place toaster on a flat and steady surface making sure surface is clean and dry.
   
3. Plug in Power cord
   
4. Switch on power
5. Place piece/s of toast in the top slots of the toaster
   
6. Set cooking time to your preference light brown/golden/dark brown
   
7. Press lever of toaster down.
   
8. Wait for toast to be cooked and for the toast to “pop” up from the toaster slots.
   
9. Is toast cooked to the desired taste?
   
10. Is toast too hot to remove from toaster. Wait 40 seconds until toast is just warm to touch 
    
11. Carefully remove toast from toaster slots. 
12. Is toast cooked to the desired taste?
    
13. Spread desired condiments on toast. Eat and enjoy

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Information/Instructional Design Definition

Is the design process that involves organizing, converting and detailed planning of specific information into a level of understanding that is able to inform users in an appropriate way. Information/instructional design is based on communication to inform people. Its purpose is to make order and sense out of a subject’s overload of information and complexity. An information designer has three hierarchical levels of activity when undertaking information design information architecture, information planning and information design. The output of an information design is sometimes expressed in written instructions, plans, sketches, drawings, or formal specifications and can be used in a number of design disciplines such as traditional print, broadcasting, interactive experiences, electronic products etc.

Interactive Design Examples

lose your excuse

• "Lose your excuse" poses the environmental question to the age demographic of 8-12. It encourages children to save energy at home with a 10-step energy action plan, by way of flash modules and mini-games. The message of healing the planet is taught to the latest generation of conscious consumers and is sponsored by a government agency. This site initiates a journey for compassionate, educated kids to learn and teach their parents about positive energy saving habits through the use of interactive design.
  

oral fixation

• Oral fixation is a highly creative fantasy mixture between a mint companies' real factory and a sophisticated virtual playground. Oral Fixation's immersive 3D world offers more explorable pieces than most sites of the genre. The user is able to re-skin the atmosphere and time of day make the fantasy world of oral fixation suit your own desire, investigate the site for hidden links to further interactive displays as well interactively view the companies products.

travelers in synch

• Owning a home or a small business can be a risky proposition. This interactive website was created to helped insurance company "Travelers" identity and avoid those risks, through "The In-Synch Challenge,". The interactive experience - complete with fully 3D rendered environments and composited green screen footage of actual actors - that puts ones safety awareness IQ to the test. From a development standpoint, it has every possible feature one can have in website design - film, motion, 3-D, voice-overs, acting, plus interaction with a bit of game-play. It is very impressive, in every aspect.
  

Interactive Design Definition

Interactive design is about the behavior of products, with how products work effectively. Interactive design follows a task centered design approach ensuring the flow of the interaction as the central goal. Basic principles of cognitive psychology provide grounding for interactive design as it is the audiences understanding of the design that needs to be achieved to have a successful design. Interaction design has great emphasis on user goals and experience; the design is evaluated in terms of usability and affective influence. With the fundamentals drawn from software engineering, interactive has come a long way and has lead to many practitioners such as animators, graphic designers and film industry specialists.

Web 2.0 Examples

Flickr

• Flickr is an image and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community platform. In addition to being a popular Web site for users to share personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository.

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia is a free multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Articles on Wikipedia are written collaboratively by volunteers around the world, and almost all of it's articles can be edited by anyone who can access the wikipedia website. Launched in January 2001 it is currently the most popular general reference work on the Internet. 

Facebook

• Facebook is a social networking website that is open to anyone 13 years of age or older. Facebook users can create and customise their own profiles with photos, videos and informaion about themselves. Friends can browse the profiles of other friends and write messages on their pages. 
  

Youtube

• Youtube is what is known as an online video website. The website allows internet users to upload and share their videos with other internet users. Many of the videos found on youtube are homemade videos and made by everyday individuals.
  

Web 2.0 Definition

Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating net effects through an "architecture of participation" and going beyond the metaphor of web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences.

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/10web-20-compact-definition.html

The central principle of success in web 2.0 applications is harnessing the collective intelligence of users. Web 2.0 is about connecting people and making technology efficient for everyone. Web 2.0 came out of the relisation that computer programs could also access the web. User of the internet are able to have much more control and input into the web environment.