An online community for information designers through sharing of projects, resources and best practices. It acts as a tool to share trends and knowledge about the discipline of information design which is often mixed with graphic design and interaction design.
Current situation;
Graphic design , information design and interaction design are all separate fields but often confused with each other. Moreover, there is information overload on the internet and lots of opinions but a user does not know what to believe.
Innovation
i4id is a community for sharing and exchange ideas and concepts through projects. Individuals can upload and share projects in formats like PowerPoint, PDF, or jpegs. Anyone can find projects on their topic of interest. Users can tag projects. i4id lets its users to join groups to connect with i4id members (students and faculty) who share similar interests. It is also a tremendous resource site of books, theories, articles on information design.
1. Creating a platform and tying it up with their regular coursework helps students access information on a regular basis and stay updated with what is happening in different institutes, domains etc. Establishing standards for academic programs in information design.
2. Promoting awareness of the discipline, craft, and value of information design and design research among businesses, academia, consumers, and colleagues.
3. Advancing the discipline of interaction design across geographical locations, institutes and experts from the field. A platform to collaborate- faster, build relations…etc.
4. Such a platform also helps in inculcating professionalism by getting mature feedback from experts. Encouraging high standards of practice within the information design discipline
5 Community Building- Developing a close-knit community of information design professionals
How does it work?
The site is governed by a body of people who invite experts from the field to become a part of review team
Institutes around the world which have information design course take membership to this site. The students of those member institutes become a member automatically and can login to the site using their college ID and passwords.
Alumni can also become members by paying a nominal fee. They can view projects and comment but not upload projects. Their old projects would still remain a part of the project pool.
Process
1. User research at NID
2. Needs and systems understanding
3. Use cases
4. Social softwares analysis and honey comb model….