Information designers

Peter Bogaards (NL)

"To secure a position as an information designer and information architect, utilizing my extensive skills in electronic documentation authoring, User Experience design, hypermedia design, navigation research, interaction design, editing and prototyping. Focal is the information artifact with an optimal usability and rich content supported by media specific atttributes for new interactive and adaptive digital media."
Contact: pjb@bogieland.com

Posted on November 05, 2003 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Toby Braun (US)

"As a freelance information designer I am proud to offer more than just basic web site design services. Information design is an emerging discipline that pleasantly blurs the boundaries between advertising art direction, graphic design, computer-human interactions (CHI), information architecture, user interface (UI) design, usability, and cognitive psychology. The benefit of this holistic web site design approach comes from maintaining a consistent sense of vision throughout the entire web site design process."
Contact: utobia@tbid.com

Posted on December 30, 2003 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Saul Carliner (US)

"As a consultant, he designs and develops e-learning programs, online guided tours, help systems, white papers, and similar content for use in business. He also advises managers on strategic issues in online learning and communication, evaluation metrics, and general management issues. He is probably best known for his popular seminars on online learning, information design, and the commerce of content."
Contact: saulcarliner@worldnet.att.net

Posted on December 30, 2003 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Conrad Taylor (UK)

“Since 1986 ideography has been the name I have worked under as a trainer, consultant, journalist and practitioner in information design and electronic publishing.
Contact: conrad@ideograf.demon.co.uk

Posted on February 01, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Yarone D. Goren (US)

"Recently, I have become obsessed with what I feel is a huge conflict in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) field between the role of Computer Science and the role of Psychology."
Contact: yarone@yarone.com

Posted on December 30, 2003 | Comments (0) | Permalink

JoAnn Hackos (US)

"Dr. JoAnn Hackos is President of Comtech, an information design firm based in Denver, which she founded in 1978; Director of the Center for Information-Development Management, a member-sponsored organization for information-development and training-management issues; and co-founder and partner of SingleSource Associates."
Contact: joann.hackos@comtech-serv.com

Posted on December 30, 2003 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Tom Haller (US)

"I think it's possible" Thom wrote in January 97, "for people to open a page of text or visit an online site, find the information they need, and get on with the rest of their lives."
Contact: thom@infodn.com

Posted on December 31, 2003 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Kurt Hanks (US)

"Making magic by finding just the right concept to wrap a project around is hard work, but one GOLDEN CONCEPT, well communicated through images and words, can make all the difference in the project's final success."
Contact: visualizer@att.net

Posted on December 30, 2003 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Steve Haworth (US)

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Contact: info@cherryreddesign.com

Posted on December 30, 2003 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Steven Heitman (US)

"My skills include technical writing and information design. I specialize in designing user-centered Websites, including information architecture and interaction design as well as highly specialized navigational systems, incorporating design solutions that help end users have a meaningful, online experience."
Contact: heitman@sfsu.edu

Posted on December 30, 2003 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Bob Jacobson (US)

Contact: bluefire@well.com

Posted on January 19, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Paul Kahn (US)

"Paul Kahn is currently at Dynamic Diagrams, a consulting company concentrating on interface design for both print and electronic media. He was has trained in literature and typography, and has worked with many electronic publishing systems since 1977. At Brown University's IRIS, he served as project manager and director to develop educational hypertext applications for Intermedia. He is an experienced designer of hypermedia publications in many software systems, and with his partner, Krzysztof, presents seminars on the visual aspects of the computer environment."
Contact: info1@dynamicdiagrams.com

Posted on January 19, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Kevin Knabe (US)

"Great designs don't just happen. They're the result of applying user-centered design principles and methods throughout the development process."
Contact: kevin@knabedesign.com

Posted on December 31, 2003 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Dirk Knemeyer (US)

"Design provides real solutions for people. These can manifest in many different ways: information, experiences, products, systems. My interest is in providing solutions that increase the success, condition and opportunity of people. It does not matter what is being created; all that matters is that it is meeting the needs and desires of the people it is intended for.That is the essence of Design, and why I simply consider myself a Designer."
Contact: dirk.knemeyer@experiencethread.com

Posted on January 03, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Krzysztof Lenk (US)

“Mr. Lenk is a professor of graphic design at the Rhode Island School of Design, specializing in information design and typography. He founded Dynamic Diagrams with Paul Kahn in 1990 and served as its creative director until 2000. Lenk and Kahn have created many seminars and tutorials on the visual aspects of information design for the computer environment, presenting at conferences and for corporate clients. They published Mapping Web Sites (2001), printed in five languages by RotoVision, London. Lenk studied graphic design and graduated with an MFA from the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow, Poland. Before coming to the United States, he worked as a designer, art director, and consultant for clients in Poland, France, and Germany."
Contact: lenk@dynamicdiagrams.com

Posted on February 01, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Beth Mazur (US)

I was born a poor... no wait, that was Steve Martin in The Jerk. I graduated class of 1976 from Gateway SHS in Monroeville, PA. I went to many, many colleges trying to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I managed to graduate with a BA in math from Boston University and (much later) with an MA in communication, culture, & technology from Georgetown. Along the way, I did lots of high-tech jobs (like programming, system management, tech support, and QA) for high-tech companies like Adams-Russell, Intermetrics (both of which have been acquired out of existence) and MAYA Design. These days, I'm doing lots of interesting web work for AARP in Washington, DC. At the same time, I'm a grad student at the University of Baltimore in their doctorate in communication design program. And just because you may be interested (hell, you clicked on the link, didn't you?), I'm also the founder of the STC Information Design SIG and co-editor of a book that looks at technical communication and information design called Content & Complexity. (Contact: beth@idblog.org)

Posted on November 05, 2003 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Kate Moirs (US)

"I walk between art and science. Science is one way of knowing about and exploring the worls, art another."
Contact: katiemoirs@powerfuldata.com

Posted on December 31, 2003 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Brian O'Mara-Croft (US)

"I find the whole process of visual communication and its physiological and psychological impact to be fascinating."
Contact: omara_croft@yahoo.com

Posted on December 31, 2003 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Elizabeth Pastor (USA)

"Elizabeth is Co-Founder of the NextDesign Leadership Institute. She has more than ten years of professional experience and has worked both in the US and Spain. Elizabeth is also Co-Founder of Understanding Lab Inc. in New York City. Her Understanding Lab work involves the art, science and business of constructing human understanding systems. She is particularly interested in the design of information tools to enhance learning and accelerate innovation."
Contact: Elizabeth Pastor (info at nextd dot org)

Posted on January 11, 2006 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Linda Reynolds (UK)

"Linda Reynolds worked as an information scientist in publishing for two years, before joining the Graphic Information Research Unit at the Royal College of Art in 1973. Initially as a research assistant, and finally as Senior Research Fellow, she worked on a range of projects relating to the legibility of printed documents, microforms, screen displays and signage. These studies were mainly funded by the British Library and were concerned with issues such as choice of typeface, type image quality, use of colour, effects of background patterns and tones, effects of show-through in printed materials, and so on."
Contact: Linda Reynolds (l.j.reynolds at reading dot ac dot uk)

Posted on June 28, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

John S. Rhodes (US)

"John S. Rhodes is a human factors engineer and usability professional. He is a consultant, teacher, student, writer, and Webmaster. He has broad interests in areas such as psychology, the Internet, interface design, usability, artificial intelligence, Web marketing, and strategic management."
Contact: Posted on January 03, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Gerlinde Schuller (NL)

"The Information Design Studio concentrates on the concept and design of complex information systems. The visual communication of navigation- and classification systems across all media plays an important role. The Information Design Studio applies an interdisciplinary approach and experimental research."
Contact: Gerlinde Schuller (studio@theworldasflatland.net)

Posted on December 04, 2003 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Nathan Shedroff (US)

"I believe that all experiences share particular characteristics that make them successful--whether these are online experiences, such as websites, or real, physical ones, such as theater, meetings, parties, products, environments, buildings, etc. In order to build successful, engaging experiences we must understand what makes experiences wonderful in all media. Certainly, most online experiences are pale and unsatisfying in comparison to those in the rest of our life."

Posted on December 31, 2003 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Paul Stiff (UK)

"Paul Stiff worked in graphic design and in academic publishing before joining the Department of Typography & Graphic Communication in 1980. He edited Information design journal from 1989 to 1999 and, with the journal's founding editor, Rob Waller, organised three of the first Information Design Conferences in the 1980s. In 1995 he founded the annual book-length research review of typography and graphic communication, Typography papers, and edited and produced its first two issues (1996, 1997); he returned to the editorship for the fifth issue (2003). He has been a visiting teacher at, among others, the Royal College of Art, The University of Michigan, Washington University St Louis, and Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. His research interests include typographic design methods and specification, editorial typography for complex texts, and the whole field of information design (design for reading), in particular graphic support for wayfinding and navigation."
Contact: Paul Stiff (p.stiff at reading dot ac dot uk)

Posted on June 28, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Edward Tufte (US)

“Edward Tufte has written seven books, including Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and Data Analysis for Politics and Policy. He writes, designs, and self-publishes his books on information design, which have received more than 40 awards for content and design. He is Professor Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught courses in statistical evidence, information design, and interface design. His current work includes digital video, sculpture, printmaking, and a new book called Beautiful Evidence.”

Posted on February 08, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

GK VanPatter (US)

"GK VanPatter is an internationally recognized understanding designer, innovation architect, and visionary thinker. He specializes in the creation of strategies, tools, and organizations that enhance adaptability and innovation. As Co-Founder of Understanding Lab Inc in New York he has pioneered the application of understanding as an instrument to drive growth, change, and innovation in knowledge creating companies."
Contact: GK. VanPatter (gvanpatter at understandinglab dot com)

Posted on February 03, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Sue Walker (UK)

"Sue Walker has taught in the Department since 1980 and has been Head of Department since 1997. Before assuming her current full-time post in 1999, she was an active partner in Text Matters, an information design consultancy based in Reading. Within the Department she teaches aspects of practice, theory, and history. She is currently co-editor of Information Design Journal + Document Design, and a member of the editorial advisory panel of the Brazilian Journal of Information Design. She is also a member of the Executive of the Design Education Association (DEED), a council member of the Design Research Society (DRS) and a member of the Arts & Humanities Research Board (AHRB) Peer Review College."
Contact: Sue Walker (s.f.walker at reading dot ac dot uk)

Posted on June 28, 2005 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Oliver Wrede (DE)

"Oliver Wrede teaches "media theory/media practice" at the Department of Design of the University of Applied Science Aachen. He works as designer and design consultant for Interactive Media, Information Design and Corporate Communication and Explores new technologies for interactive media."

Posted on January 03, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Richard Saul Wurman (US)

"With the publication of his first book in 1962 at the age of 26, Richard Saul Wurman began the singular passion of his life: that of making information understandable. In his best-selling book, Information Anxiety, in 1989, (and then again in 2000 with Information Anxiety2) he developed an overview of the motivating principles found in his previous works. Each of his 80 books focuses on some subject or idea that he personally had difficulty understanding. They all stem from his desire to know rather than from already knowing, from his ignorance rather than his intelligence, from his inability rather than his ability."
Contact: wurmanrs@aol.com

Posted on December 31, 2003 | Comments (0) | Permalink

Ron Zeno (US)

“While critical thinking may not make up for a lack of knowledge, it is essential for gaining knowledge.”
Contact: ronz@despammed.com

Posted on February 08, 2004 | Comments (0) | Permalink