-Training Manuals -Instructional Tapes -Instructional/Informational -Audio tapes -Video tapes -Booklets -Sheets/Work Sheets -Hands on Puzzles etc (All mediums have to actually help people understand and learn the intended lesson to be effective informational design.) thttp://www.dur.ac.uk/claire.horwell.html
-"Much of the foundation of the field of instructional design was laid in World War II, when the U.S. military faced the need to rapidly train large numbers of people to perform complex technical tasks, from field-stripping a carbine to navigating across the ocean to building a bomber." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructional_design -The information design process involves researching and working out; the viewers current level of understanding, the intended outcome of the instruction, and coming up with a way to portray this in the appropriate medium. -Based on cognitive and behavioural psycology. -"The ADDIE model is a generic and simplified instructional systems design (ISD) model. ADDIE is short for Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate." http://ed.isu.edu/addie/index.html -The ADDIE model is traditionally used by instructional designers and training developers.
-Electronic Devices, Computer Software (websites and Programes), Mobile phones and other such devices, Computer and video games are all examples of Interactive Design. -User centered design. -Cognitive Psycology (internal mental process, subliminal thought and perception) -Design that users can interact with and/or be a part of. -The designed objects behaviour, response, reaction to the users actions.
This is a blog I have undertaken as a part of my Intearctive Design unit in the Design (Visual Communication) course. It maps and documents my increasing knowledge in the field of Interactive Design and all that it entails, for the duration of the project.
I am a student at The University Of Western Sydney studying Interactive Design, this is a professional assignment blog which maps the development of my understanding of the topics of this part of the course.
