Programme Information Design Conference 2009, Greenwich, 2-3 April

        ** Conference Announcement ** (Programme)
           Information Design Conference 2009


DATE: April 2 - 3, 2009 Greenwich, London, UK.

WEB: http://www.infodesign.org.uk/2009-conference/


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** PROGRAMME

Day One ­ 2 April 2009

  9.30 Paul Stiff: Information design before designers
10.05 Rob Waller: Pattern languages for information design
10.40 Robert Harland: The graphic design pendulum ­ the swing between
       information and affectation

THEME: WAYFINDING/WAYSHOWING
11.45 Jonathan Rez: From wayfinding to thingfinding
12.20 Colette Jeffrey: Inclusive design is clever design

THEME: ISOTYPE
14.00 Eric Kindel: Isotype in Africa
14.20 Sue Walker: Let¹s see inside ­ the Isotype Institute¹s
       approach to child-centred book design
14.20 Emma Minns: ŒCatch up with and overtake¹ ­ pictorial
       statistics and the representation of Soviet success
15.00 Panel Discussion (Andrew Boag in the chair)

THEME: CASE STUDIES
16.00 Mark Barratt & Clive Holtham: Wayfinding in multiple dimensions:
       a web case study
16.30 Sunita Yeomans: From Chaos to Order: the redesign of the
       Argos catalogue
17.00 Reception and poster session
- Carol Briam: An organisational framework that goes beyond words
- David Farbey: Structured Authoring rides again ­ what is DITA and
   why is it important?
- Maria de Lourdes Fuentes & Maria Gonzalez de Cossio: Conventional
   flow charts are questioned ­ a proposal to aid management success
- Maria Olinda Lopes: Information design in medicine inserts in Braille ­
   a case study in Brazil
- Yong Kwok & Jerry Reinstein: Applying general principles of a
   performance-based approach to nonprescription medicines labelling in Mexico
19.00 Conference dinner at The Trafalgar Tavern


Day Two ­ 3 April 2009

  9.30 Conrad Taylor & Kemi Adeboye: Styles in text formatting software ­
       why don¹t people make use of them?
10.05 David Farbey: Everybody¹s (not) doing it ­ is it really OK to keep
       ignoring document users?
10.40 Michele Wong Kung Fong: A shift in the delivery of online learning
       material, informed by learning theories

11.45 Yateendra Joshi: Tactics for effective explanatory prose
12.20 Max Gadney: Showing and Telling ­ patterns in media information graphics
12.55 Borries Schwesinger: Between paper forms and e-government ­
       the interfaces of public services in Europe

14.15 Jane Teather & David Dickinson: Development of the Yellow Card
       information package
14.45 Carla Spinillo & Stephania Padovani: How to improve information
       communication in medicine inserts? Contributions from a
       user/patient-centred design approach to research in Brazil

16.15 Panel session Information Design, Interaction and interface design:
       separate traditions working on essentially the same problem?
       What can these communities learn from each other?
17.00 Close of conference


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