Information / Instructional Design

What is Information / Instructional Design?

Information design is any kind of design created to inform responders of something in order for them to understand and derive some knowledge from it. With this idea in mind, instructional design is a form of design that is created to make the responder interact to learn the information, not simply just view. Instructional design is therefore a system of displaying information through engaging users to interact in order to learn and not simply view.


Some Examples of information and instructional design:


Quake Quiz SF

This website is based upon teaching the people of San Francisco what to do during an earthquake. They achieve this by creating an interface with 6 different common situations and then asks the user what they should do allowing 3 multiple choice answers, after answered correctly the user is given tips on how to be prepared for that particular situation by clicking on icons surrounding the character. The website is extremely helpful and does not overload the user with information but gives them just what they need to better prepare for earthquakes.


Try Drugs

This website offers to inform the public of the harmful nature of illegal drugs and their effects on our minds and bodies. On each page of the site a different drug is being represented, the first page for example is marijuana, because of this the page explains the effects of slowing down the mind, to represent this happening, the mouse movement speed is decreased and sluggish as well as a slowed down background music giving the user a sense of what the drug does and how difficult it is to click the continue button.


State Of Salmon

This website shows a series of statistics, maps and information on the sockeye salmon and how close it is to extinction. This website is very informative displaying an interactive map that can display information depending on different factors such as danger to extinction or specific locations, sections of the map can be then clicked into to find out more information on the incline or decline of salmon in that specific location. Various other maps and statistics are also found and can be interacted with to find out information on the sockeye salmon including a historical breakdown and current trends.