Rationale An Information Designer requires the ability to...
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PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES everything you need to evaluate your own skills and evaluate whether you’ll need more A. RESEARCH F. PROTOTYPE K. WORK EFFECTIVELY WITH DESIGN training in specific areas. Information design 1. Commission, coordinate and understand research 1. Make preliminary visualizations 1. Understand the critique process draws on a wide range of competencies that 2. Analyze information 2. Make models 2. Review are seldom possessed by a single person. For 3. Create hypothesis aimed at improving 3. Make prototypes 3. Make a revision 4. Reference research 4. Facilitate the discussion and test 4. Direct the user’s eye this reason, information designers tend to work 5. Work effectively with design tools 5. Craft knowledge on information products in teams that include specialists and other information designers. G. TEST 1. Understand a range of techniques for testing GENERAL COMPETENCIES B. TRANSFORM 1. Use words, diagrams, type and sequencing prototypes In addition, information design is a vast 2. Understand the finished information products L. DEMONSTRATE PERSONAL SKILLS 2. Restructure message subject, practiced by numerous disciplines and CHART OF COMPETENCIES 3. Make story effective 3. Know the wide range of techniques that vary 1. Display organizational skills producing an enormous quantity of diverse according to the medium 2. Encourage feedback throughout process artifacts. What unites the field is a focus on 4. Select and manage suitable methods for each 3. Demonstrate analytical skills project 4. Demonstrate flexibility the end user, and the purposeful intent of each C. WRITE FOR CLEAR COMMUNICATION 5. Make yourself accessible project. 1. Edit to make message clear 6. Set priorities H. WAYFIND 2. Edit to make message unambiguous 7. Work under pressure 1. Create new signage and wayfinding Moreover, information design can help the 3. Edit to make message understandable 8. Work in groups system user perform tasks of varying complexity, from 4. Make message clear for audience 9. Demonstrate work ethics 2. Create graphic communication stopping at a railroad crossing to pitching 10. Have a goal and mission 3. Create audible communication 11. Demonstrate thoroughness and attention to details a tent or recording a song. It can assist in 4. Create tactile communication 12. Make decisions location, indicating place and orientation in D. MAKE GRAPHIC AND TYPOGRAPHIC 5. Have consistent clues DESIGN 13. Exercise creativity both physical and virtual envoronments— 6. Have balance between people, structures, 1. Sketch design ideas and signage Information Design perhaps even political, social, or economic climates. As a rule, information design provide 2. Generate design ideas 3. Design appearance for audience M. DEMONSTRATE INTERPERSONAL understanding. 4. Maintain quality standards I. UNDERSTAND ACCESIBILITY AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS 5. Typographic systems are clean and elegant 1. Know what accessibility means for an 1. Demonstrate writing skills 6. Delineate a hierarchy of information intended audience 2. Demonstrate oral skills In this case some of the competencies 3. Practice active listening 2. Assess risk realistically have been found based on the book “The 4. Demonstrate teamwork skills Information Design Handbook” and through E. TELL A STORY AND PROVIDE DATA 5. Negotiate the web. The skills found on this chart are 1. Tell a story with pictures J. SPECIFY 6. Persuade necessary to become a better information 2. Give clear data which is understandable and 1. Understand chosen production 7. Have co-ordination simple 2. Understand media 8. Represent the user 3. Make it compelling 3. Understand processes 9. Act as ‘professional amateur’ 4. Generate a convincing story 4. Specify to production specialists in wide 10. Work well with a range of specialties range of industries