INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

Instructional design is the process of using our knowledge of "How People Learn" to develop instructional strategies that meet the needs of the learners and the desired learning outcomes. Different kinds of learning goals require different approaches to instruction. The instructional designer has to determine the best instructional conditions or methods to deliver learning outcomes. The Instructional designer develops instructional strategies that are tailored to the learning objectives and the needs of the learners.

“Instructional Design is the process of analysis of learning needs and goals and the development of a delivery system to meet those needs.” (Hari Srinivas)

Hari Srinivas, Instructional Design, last accessed February 2008

Information design is concerned with transforming data into information, making the complex easier to understand and to use.Information design is about perception, how people translate what they see and hear into knowledge. It is a rapidly growing discipline that draws on the information aspects of industrial design, information content design, page design, Web site design, illustration design, typography decisions, and so forth.

The practice of information design invites questions into how people learn or prefer to learn and how they use information. It also raises questions about how to design information for different cultural and other contextual differences in the audience

"Information design is the detailed planning of specific information that is to be provided to a particular audience to meet specific objectives ... The output of an information design is sometimes expressed in written instructions, plans, sketches, drawings, or formal specifications" Michael Lawlor

Hari Srinivas, Information Design, last accessed February 2008

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