Info/Instructional Design: Examples

Information design could be found everyday, everywhere around our life: Timetable for trains and buses, a well designed working diary, an invoice of a transaction, a mobile phone bill or even an ID card also makes people receive information efficiently and effectively.

In an education process with instructional design, the teacher encourages the students to participate in his teaching and learning. He may use different instructional resources to involve students in the class. Asking questions and expressing own opinions in the class are being encouraged. The teacher may allocate some participation mark as the reward to those self-motivated students.

Info/Instructional Design: Definition

Information design is the skill and practice of preparing information clearly so people can use it efficiently and effectively. It is about the process of defining, planning, and shaping of the contents of a message. Information design involves a multi-skills, it includes communication, combining skills from graphic design, technical and non-technical authoring, psychology, communication theory and cultural studies.

In general, Instructional design refers to the teaching system planning and design of teaching methods, which means to translate general principles of learning and instruction into plans for instructional materials and learning activities.