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Information Design library released!

— Everyone's writing a 'library' these days. So I thought I'd do one for information design.”

I have arrived at a logical pause in my efforts to write an Information Design library, so in the current fashion I’m releasing it as a “beta”.

Some time ago, I wrote in a post entitled “21st Century Job” that an Information Designer …

“…makes sense of complex information and communicates it … so that information is converted to knowledge.”

Now since I’ve been a consultant in this capacity for some time, I’ve learned a couple of things that have prompted these recent efforts:

1. Clients need to have a better understanding of Information Design
2. The concepts and processes I use need to be documented

The library (working title “Insight”) attempts to address both these issues by describing the conceptual framework of Information Design. So far, I have only just begun to discuss the design disciplines involved, starting with web-based design, the area in which I’m most active.

So rather than bang on about how I’m trying to write more nowadays anyway (future career move in the offing?), I’ll just close there.

By way of a postscript, I might add that “writing the library has been a labour of love”, but there are problems with that soundbite:

1. I make it sound like I’ve finished writing it, which I haven’t;
2. I didn’t love the writing, it was a bit of a grind, but I hope reading it won’t be!

If you didn’t already spot the link above, you can find the library at: http://www.fincaso.com/work/insight. Enjoy!