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Author Archives: Alison Black
Information design in transactional communications
Alison Black gave a talk, yesterday, at a masterclass in customer communications for commercial and public sector organisations. The event, organised by GI Solutions, was held at Royal Mail’s offices (hence the picture above). Alison’s talk introduced the concept of … Continue reading
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Future thinking in a historic setting
The Houses of Commons provided a very historic and concrete setting for a discussion, yesterday evening, of ‘speculative design’ – the use of images, models or videos of far future scenarios to encourage research participants to give their responses to … Continue reading
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Growing design research from PLanT (Partnership in Learning and Teaching) projects
Jeanne-Louise Moys is leading a collaborative staff and student project – ‘Typo-resource’ – to develop a hub of online resources for our graphic communication students. Although a teaching development project, it draws on our strengths in user-centred design to explore … Continue reading
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New book on Information Design
We’re delighted to see the publication of Emeritus Professor Jorge Frascara’s new edited book ‘Information design as principled action: Making information accessible, relevant, understandable, and usable’, which adds to his many influential books and articles on information design. We’re looking … Continue reading
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Information design to improve care of acute kidney injury
Centre for Information Design has completed its collaborative project with Royal Berkshire Hospital (RBH), funded by Thames Valley Strategic Clinical Network, to use information design to increase implementation of the NICE care bundle for treatment of acute kidney injury (AKI). … Continue reading
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At CIDR this fortnight, 5 Jan 2015
Research in progress – We are completing user feedback interviews with carers who have been using the Berkshire Dementia Carers Handbook, and drawing the project to a close. – We’re continuing … Continue reading
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Successful undergraduate summer research project
Congratulations go to Part 3 students, Mel Towriss and Peter Loveland (pictured above) who, over the summer, took part in the University’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Programme (UROP) and worked with Centre for Information Design Research. Their project examined how on-screen … Continue reading
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Launch of dementia carers’ handbook
Last week saw the launch of the Berkshire Healthcare handbook for carers of people with dementia. The handbook is the product of a joint research project between Centre for Information Design Research and Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust to understand the … Continue reading
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Biodiversity mapping design project
The University has launched its biodiversity mapping tool, KiteSite, which is to be used in teaching to track sightings of plant and animal life and, through GPS, map their location on campus. The tool was developed from existing open-source software … Continue reading
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Designing to communicate forecast uncertainty
Meteorologists aim to predict potentially disastrous weather events to a level that can help the public take action to guard against loss. The weather science behind these predictions involves a degree of uncertainty that is sometimes difficult for non-specialists to … Continue reading
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