Information design

The Design of Understanding

Design of Understanding Conference (January 28, 2011 ~ London UK)
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Start date: January 28, 2011 | Permalink

Transforming Design

Design/Management Europe 14 (September 7-8, 2010 ~ London UK)
Design is now recognized as an enabler of business transformation, because design leads change, which is critically needed to save and solve our future. It is a solution that addresses problems, and problems behind problems. Design connects businesses to their customers, and customers to new products, services and experiences. Design is a process tool, an innovation tool, a tool to build experiences, and a transformation tool. Transformation is as much a way of thinking as it is a result.

Start date: September 07, 2010 | Permalink

DeSForM 2009

Design and Semantics of Form and Movement (October 26-27, 2009 - Taipei, Taiwan)
The scope of the conference is the design of products, systems and services with a focus on the meanings conveyed by their forms and behaviors. After four successful workshops in the Europe, DeSForM 2009 comes to Asia and creates an international platform where researchers and practitioners across different cultures can share findings and insights about the aesthetics and meanings of human-object interactions.

Start date: November 26, 2009 | Permalink

DeThinking Service, ReThinking Design

First Nordic Conference on Service Design and Service Innovation (November 24-26, 2009 - Oslo, Norway EU)
Design has become central to product innovation and is now starting to innovate services with the same effect. Service Design is emerging as a new design discipline, and is showing strong results in both the private and public sector.

Service Design delivers innovation through the holistic design of customer experiences that occur across touch-points and over time. It brings a different perspective to established service disciplines such as service management and service innovation, and both complements and catalyzes them.

Start date: November 24, 2009 | Permalink

reboot11

Action (June 25-26, 2009 - Copenhagen, Denmark EU)
It's time to act, time to focus on the act of acting, time to figure out where to begin the reboot. reboot11 is all about action, two days away from the status quo, two days with old and new friends trying to figure out how to reboot the world!

Start date: June 25, 2009 | Permalink

DD4D

Data Designed for Decisions (June 18-20, 2009 - Paris, FR EU)
"Putting together experts in different disciplines, as in the DD4D conference, is one of the key factors for progress in a multifaceted domain such as that of information conveyance: everyone will benefit from the positive contamination of comments exchanged from different points of view." - Carlo Amati (Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico, Italy)

Start date: June 18, 2009 | Permalink

From Business to Buttons 2009

Design for Effect (June 11-12, 2009 - Malmö, Sweden EU)
User experience and interaction design has finally worked its way into the companies. And with the economic downturn, the challenge for us is simple but vast: create user experiences that are the difference between success and failure. It is the time for us as an industry to step in, step up and show them what the fuzz is all about. It is time to become really useful to our clients and our companies.

From Business to Buttons is the meeting place in Europe for interaction designers, business strategist and usability experts. If you want to expand your business, and become a leader in the UX field, there is no better place to get the tools and inspiration. Ours is still a small community. By coming together we become bigger and better (and perhaps even more beautiful). We believe that by sharing experiences we strengthen our profession on a global level, which is good for us all.

Start date: June 11, 2009 | Permalink

LIFT 09

(February 25-27, 2009 - Geneva, Switzerland EU)

Lift is a series of events built around a community of doers and thinkers who get together in Europe and Asia to explore the social impact of new technologies. Each conference is your chance to turn changes into opportunities, by anticipating the major shifts ahead, and meeting the people who drive them.

Start date: February 25, 2009 | Permalink

LIFT08

Challenges and opportunities of technology in society (February 6-8, 2008 - Geneva, Switserland)
LIFT is a community of observers, explorers, and builders who gather to discuss the current challenges and creative solutions presented by emerging technologies. LIFT helps people to accelerate their thinking, their conversations with others and their projects.

Start date: February 06, 2008 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Designboost

Sharing design knowledge (October 17 - November 17, 2007 - Malmö, Sweden EU)
Designboost is a completely novel concept on the Swedish design market. It will be annual, different, international and will penetrate questions of current interest on design in a broad perspective and put them on the agenda in the society at large. It consists of three different parts; boost meetings (formerly known as workshops), boost chats (formerly known as lectures) and a boost show (formerly known as exhibition). The boost meetings take place with an invited group of participants while the boost chats and the boost show are open for the public. Designboost is supposed to inject both it's participants and the audience with new ideas, make them ponder, reflect, worry and be amused about what design really is and how it should be used in order to create a better life for people, and a more durable society.

Start date: October 17, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Vison Plus 12

Information Design: Achieving Measurable Results (July 5-7, 2007 - Schwarzenberg, Austria)
The International Institute for Information Design (IIID) is proud to announce Vision Plus 12 at Schwarzenberg, a multi-disciplinary international conference devoted to exploring one of the most critical issues facing communicators today - how to measure the impact of informational communications. This event, the twelfth in the Vision Plus series of symposia, will be held July 5-7, 2007, in Schwarzenberg, located in the Bregenzerwald region, Vorarlberg, Austria. The theme for vision Plus 12 is "measurement". How can we measure and quantify the impact and results of informational communication? This has become a hot topic both in business and academia. This is a daunting challenge.

Start date: July 05, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Design Conference 2007

(March 29-30, 2007 - Greenwich London, UK EU)
The idea of setting up the IDA came out of the original Information Design Conference series, organized by the Information Design Journal during the 1980s. In 1990, a group of design practitioners, teachers and researchers thought it would be good to form an Association, both as a talking-shop and to promote the benefits of Information Design to a wider audience. For some years the IDA held well-attended meetings in London, and also got involved in running the Information Design Conferences; then, energies waned, and the IDA became dormant in the UK. Until a year ago! A group of us have come together, using the IDA as our organisational framework, to run this conference. We are already delighted with the international interest that has been shown in this event, and following the conference the IDA will continue with regular meetings.

Start date: March 29, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Workshop on HCI & Information Design to Communicate Complex Information

(February 16-17, 2006: University of Memphis, Memphis TN USA)
The future will see the design of information and communication technologies that serve ever more complex purposes and problems. For these technologies, creating user-centered support is particularly challenging when users are domain experts with sophisticated knowledge work and collaborations and do not want to become power users to conduct this work electronically. Goals of this workshop are to define what we already know about communicating complex information to such domain experts and clarify our understanding of what issues urgently need further research.

Start date: February 16, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

LIFT 2007

A conference about the challenges and opportunities of technology in our society (February 7-9, 2007 - Geneva, Switzerland EU)
LIFT is a gathering of talented observers, explorers, and builders who discuss the current challenges and creative solutions presented by emerging technologies. LIFT is three days to face cutting edge business models, bold predictions, radical thinking, and get new ideas to inject into your own part of the planet. LIFT has a simple goal: connect people who are passionate about new applications of technology and propel their conversations into the broader world to improve life and work.

Start date: February 07, 2007 | Comments (0) | Permalink

WonderGround

Design Research Society - Designing interdisciplinary discourse, conspiring for Design Leadership (November 1-5, 2006: Lisbon, Portugal)
Wonderground is a comprehensive international conference covering all fields of design research. Wonderground invites papers and projects in all areas of design research.

Start date: November 01, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

SHiFT

Social and Human Ideas for Technology (September 28-29, 2006 - Lisbon, Portugal EU)
The main goal of SHIFT is to create an informal space for participating in conversations about technology and the ways it could be used for positive ends. It’s about celebrating technology with people who share common ideas about the future. SHIFT will be based on getting together and having spaces for people to meet up informally. SHIFT will be co-organized by its participants. Since one of the main ideas behind SHIFT is the role of technology in social issues, the organizers of the conference have invited leaders from different areas who have helped create social projects that rely on technology; projects with a strong sense of social justice, projects that helped cross frontiers and that have had a positive impact on the lives of people who use them.

Start date: September 28, 2006 | Permalink

@media 2006

Europe's foremost professional web design conference (June 15-16, 2006: London, UK)
"(...) brings together some of the world's most highly respected web experts to talk about the latest major happenings, best-practice thinking, and cutting-edge techniques in the world of web design."

Start date: June 15, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

reboot8

June 1-2, 2006 - Copenhagen, Denmark EU
reboot is a community event for the practical visionaries who are at the intersection of digital technology and change all around us... 2 days. 400 people. A journey into the interconnectedness of creation, participation, values, openness, decentralization, collaboration, complexity, technology, p2p, humanities, connectedness and many more areas. Applied towards us as individuals, citizens, teachers, culture workers, entrepreneurs, creators and change makers.

Start date: June 01, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Design 2006 Conference

Excellence in Design (May 15-18, 2006: Dubrovnik, Croatia)
"Organization of a DESIGN Conference series is a result of the continued policy and continuous learning process, connecting researchers and practitioners attempting to understand better the problems they are trying to address. The objectives of the DESIGN Conferences tend to be integrative across the various disciplines, to reach the current state-of-the-art, to cover the multidisciplinary aspects of design and to assure high level review policy. All activities in the organization of DESIGN conferences have been oriented to fulfil those goals motivating the researchers and practitioners to participate in these truly international high quality events. Until 2000 the conferences were supported by WDK (Workshop Design-Konstruktion), while the recent events have continued tradition under the sign of the Design Society, providing a forum for cooperative interactions among participants. The DESIGN 2004 Conference has attracted more then 230 participants from 40 countries. The forthcoming DESIGN 2006 Conference is founded on the continuous development of organization and evaluation procedure that resulted in a capacity to deliver procedures and conditions of communicative competence. The Organizational Board invites you to the 9th International DESIGN Conference - DESIGN 2006 to continue the tradition of the previous meetings by presenting your view on the 'EXCELLENCE IN DESIGN'."

Start date: May 15, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

IceWeb 2006

Iceland's premier web oriented conference (April 27-28, 2006 - Laugardalur Conference Hall, Reykjavik, Iceland)
Web development is a fast changing industry and for web developers, keeping up to date on current events and development is as important as the water is to the fish. This April, SVEF will conduct the first IceWeb conference, where world renowned speakers will conduct lectures on current and future development in web design. The conference features selected speakers that make for the cream of the web development industry today.

Start date: April 27, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

LIFT06

Life, Ideas, Futures, Together (February 2-3, 2006: Geneva, Switzerland)
"LIFT is a conference about new technologies and people. LIFT is about teaming talented observers, explorers, and builders with people whose work depends on understanding current challenges and creative solutions presented by emerging technologies. Attendees will face cutting edge business models, bold predictions, radical thinking -- ideas to inject into their own part of the planet. LIFT has a simple goal: connect people who are passionate about new applications of technology and propel their conversations into the broader world to improve life and work."

Start date: February 03, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

eg2006 | THE entertainment gathering

February 1-3, 2006 - The Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles CA, USA
At eg2006, we will explore the enduring qualities of understanding our culture through entertainment, learning from the best and the brightest minds who shape the business and tell the stories of our lives.

Start date: February 01, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Design Engaged 2005

Sponsored by Nokia (November 11-13, 2005: Berlin, DE)
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Start date: November 11, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Serious Games Summit 2005

Interactive Solutions for Shared Challenges (October 31 - November 1, 2005: Washington DC, USA)
The number of non-entertainment games under development is rapidly increasing. As a result, an entirely new market has emerged: serious games. This second annual gathering promises to answer not just why serious games are important, but how to develop games for non-entertainment purposes.

Start date: October 31, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

IASDR 2005

International Design Congress (October 27-28, 2005 - National Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Taiwan)
"Asian Design International Conference has undoubtedly become an international conference that is hosted in Asia, with the enormous efforts devoted by the Chinese, Japan and Korean design societies."

Start date: October 27, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Text Narrative Image

Show & Tell: Relationships between Text, Narrative and Image (September 12, 2005 - University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield UK)
"The proverbial picture tells a thousand words. Yet, images are rarely devoid of textual or verbal accompaniment. We use words to describe images, just as we use images to convey stories. Images and text appear in conjunction, and in succession, and these juxtapositions may be read as narratives. In sum, text, image and narrative are nothing less than mutually constitutive."

Start date: September 12, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

(Im)Material Exchange

IIID/AIGA Summer Academy 2005 (July 11-23, 2005 - Free University of Bolzano, Italy EU)
In harmony with the 8th UN Millennium Goal 'Developing a Global Partnership for Development', the focus of the IIID Summer Academy are the Cap Verde islands situated in the middle of the Atlantic. Once known as a Portugese station for the slave trade between Africa and America, the Cap Verdes became independent only in 1975 and are struggling hard to improve the economy of the islands and the well-being of its citizens. We asked ourselves: How could information design assist? What for instance could we do to provide school leavers in this underpriviledged part of the world with opportunities leading to a better future? Part of idX (the IIID Information Design Exchange project) within the EU/USA Cooperation Programme in Higher Education and Vocational Education and Training, the summer academy is open to information design students and professionals.

Start date: July 11, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Vision Plus 11

Needs, Trends and Themes for Information Design (July 7-9, 2005 - Urania, Wien/Vienna, Austria)
Vision Plus 11 is the eleventh in a series of innovative symposia on information design building upon each other. Former conferences took place in Austria, Great Britain, Japan and the USA. "If you don't understand it, don't design it." To facilitate understanding the information designer needs to acquaint himself/herself with complex subject matters. Subject matters with real challenges and above average rewards. Vision Plus 11 will bring together renowned international experts to discuss the development of subject areas of information design.

Start date: July 07, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

ICALT 2005

The 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (July 5-8, 2005 - Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
Next generation e-learning systems: Intelligent applications and smart design.

Start date: July 05, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Information Design Symposium 2005

Digital Game Based Learning: June 2nd, 2005 - Stuttgart Media University, Germany
Digital games are a significant element in the digital media and information society. They influence the development of media technologies as well as interface design, online social interaction and new evaluation approaches. The games industry develops not only products for leisure, but also for work and learning, with many dimensions in the area of social life, knowledge acquisition and application, gaining soft skills and other experiences. Digital games attract researchers from different science fields e.g. social, political, cultural, pedagogical, computer science, etc. The 4th Information Design Symposium is focused on the question of how game based learning environments can motivate and stimulate learners in different situations, and improve learning. It presents didactical and pedagogical issues, as well as actual examples and concrete applications.

Start date: June 02, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

The Institute of Design Strategy Conference

(May 18-19, 2005 - Chicago, USA)
"The Institute of Design Strategy Conference is an international executive forum addressing how businesses can use design to explore emerging opportunities, solve complex problems, and achieve lasting strategic advantage."

Start date: May 18, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Blurring Boundaries: Focused Solutions

A conference devoted to the new challenges in designing, delivering, and explaining financial information (April 27, 2005 - Boston MA, USA)
In financial services, like in nature, interesting things happen at the boundaries. As banking, brokerage, insurance, and consumer finance continue to converge, financial products mix and morph. Financial firms woo customers with hybrid accounts that combine diverse assets. Healthcare providers offer new plans which combine insurance with savings accounts. And there’s dramatic change in the communications channels, too. More and more investors are getting financial information and conducting transactions over the internet. Some firms are able to deliver account information to cell phones and other mobile devices. Never have investors had so much choice. And never have the communications challenges been so exciting and daunting.

Start date: April 27, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Interactive Ideas

International Istanbul Interactive Design Workshop (December 25, 2004 - January 3, 2005) - Kadir Has University, Dept. of Communication Design
"This Christmas, Kadir Has University will organize new interaction design workshops in Istanbul. This will give you an opportunity to study with experts from Tokyo and at the same time to enjoy your Christmas time in the historical ambiance of Istanbul.We are offering two different workshops and are looking for highly talented candidates. All accepted international participants will be offered grants."

Start date: December 25, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

IIID Summer Academy 2004

Social Information: Community and Cultural Information Design (August 16-27, 2004 - Eskiltuna, Sweden, EU)
How can information design break the spell of boring and incomprehensible public messages?

Start date: August 16, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Community and Cultural Information Design

IIID / AIGA / CSD Information Design Summer Academy 2004 in cooperation with Mälardalen University (2 August - 10 September 2004, Mälardalen University, Eskilstuna, Sweden)
"How can information design break the spell of boring and incomprehensible public messages?"

Start date: August 02, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

DIS 2004

Designing Interactive Systems: Across the spectrum (August 1-4, 2004 - Cambridge, MA, USA)
"DIS2004 aims to facilitate, nurture and encourage the growth of a new community. This community has emerged in response to the opportunities and challenges presented by new and future interactive systems. (...) DIS2004 will embrace the diversity of interests in this new community, crossing the spectrum of contributing disciplines including business, technology and engineering, psychology, interaction, design, expressive media and culture. DIS2004 is a step towards achieving a fusion of art and science, the white light of a spinning colour wheel. In the same way that works of art are produced from a palette of paints, interactive systems are created through the work of a ‘palette’ of specialists. The role of design is spread across a spectrum of disciplines, each providing their own knowledge and techniques. Designers of interactive systems work with and through a medium of technical arts blending and exploring synergies from diverse areas."

Start date: August 01, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

4th International Conference on Design and Emotion

(July 12-14, 2004 - Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey)
"After the success of the previous three conferences, our aim is to face a new challenge by exploring connections with new areas that broaden the spectrum of design and emotion."

Start date: July 12, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Research into Practice Conference

(July 2, 2004 - University of Hertfordshire, UK, EU)
"Research into Practice has a core interest in the fundamental principles, philosophies, and problems that underpin studio-based research in art and design. Its objectives include understanding how research contributes to the development of the discipline; and the problem of the relationship of the image, the object, the presentation and the word. It seeks to facilitate the highest level of debate amongst professional researchers, academics, practitioners and postgraduate students; to respond to the national and international context; and to contribute to the development of policy in art and design research."

Start date: July 02, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

MILIA 2004

World Interactive Content Forum (March 31 - April 2, 2004 - Cannes, France)
"MILIA is the leading global forum for the interactive industries. Now in it's 11th year, it attracts over 1400 leaders from 722 companies from 48 countries. MILIA is where leading content decision-makers from the world of digital entertainment, interactive TV, Internet and mobile get together to make new international contacts, establish partnerships, present services and solutions, as well as discover the latest business, creative, and technological trends in international content."

Start date: March 31, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink