Resources
The resources listed here expand on topics covered or mentioned in each chapter.
CHAPTER 1
Understanding information design
CHAPTER 2
How information designers work
| Associations | Design Management Institute Design Council |
| Tools and Guides | AIGA Business & Freelance Resources Ethical Design Manifesto MapCI Cards by Sheila Pontis Deceptive Design |
| Websites | Equity-Centered Community Design |
| Reading | The Ethical Design Handbook by Trine Falbe, Martin Michael Frederiksen, and Kim Andersen |
CHAPTER 3
How we process visual information
| Websites | Perception in Visualization by Christopher G. Healey The Psychology of Design The Decision Lab’s Guide to Biases |
| Reading | Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World by Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West |
CHAPTER 4
How we create meaning
| Tools and Guides | The Genderbread Person by Sam Killerman The Do No Harm Project |
| Websites | Untold Stories, the website of Ruben Pater |
| Reading | Intercultural Collaboration by Design: Drawing from Differences, Distances, and Disciplines Through Visual Thinking by Kelly Murdoch-Kitt and Denielle Emans |
CHAPTER 5
Thinking and working visually
| Tools and Guides | Gamestorming Neuland – visual thinking supplies Visual Frameworks by Dave Gray |
| Reading | Thinking Visually: A Strategy Manual for Problem Solving by Robert H. McKim Mapping Experiences: A Complete Guide to Customer Alignment Through Journeys, Blueprints, and Diagrams by James Kalbach |
CHAPTER 6
Learning through research
| Tools and Guides | GOV.UK Service Design Manual: User Research section Service Design Tools This is Service Design Doing: Method Library Design Kit by IDEO.org |
| Reading | Making Sense of Field Research: A Practical Guide for Information Designers by Sheila Pontis |
CHAPTER 7
Sensemaking for communication
| Reading | The Art of Clean Up: Life Made Neat and Tidy by Ursus Wehrli How to Make Sense of Any Mess by Abby Covert “Hats” by Richard Saul Wurman, Design Quarterly 145 (1989): 1-32. “Abductive thinking and sensemaking: The drivers of design synthesis” by Jon Kolko, Design issues 26, no. 1 (2010): 15-28. “Organizing Things” by Dave Gray, Medium, April 12, 2017 |
CHAPTER 8
Designing with clarity
| Tools and Guides | W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) WhoCanUse – color contrast tool for visual impairments Typewolf – Typography resources Color & Contrast – an interactive guide to color & contrast Plain Language Action and Information Network |
| Reading | Fundamentals of Data Visualization by Claus O. Wilke Storytelling with Data Community – data visualization and storytelling learning community How Maps Work: Representation, Visualization, and Design by Alan M. MacEachren Grid systems in Graphic Design by Josef Müller-Brockmann |
CHAPTER 9
Communications
| Associations | Data Visualization Society Society for News Design Society for Technical Communication |
| Conferences | Outlier Conference – data visualization STC Summit – technical communication |
| Awards | IIIDaward Information is Beautiful Awards SND Annual Best of News Design Competition |
| Tools and Guides | World Commerce & Contracting Contract Design Pattern Library |
| Websites | Style.org, the blog of Jonathan Corum |
| Reading | Nightingale, the Journal of the Data Visualization Society Technical Communication, the Journal of the Society for Technical Communication |
CHAPTER 10
Experiences
| Associations | The Society for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) Sign Design Society Interaction Design Association |
| Websites | Interaction Design Foundation |
| Reading | Designing Museum Experiences by Mark Walhimer |
CHAPTER 11
Organizations
| Websites | Strategyzer |
| Reading | The Connected Company by Dave Gray 101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization by Vijay Kumar |
CHAPTER 12
Systems
| Associations | Systemic Design Association Systems Innovation Network The Academy for Systems Change |
| Conferences | Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium |
| Websites | The Systems Thinker The Donella Meadows Project |
| Reading | Designing Complexity by Birger Sevaldson Design Journeys through Complex Systems by Peter Jones and Kristel van Ael |