information design

9 posts tagged information design.

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Arm the Believer Inside

In a big organisation you rarely win the room yourself. You find the believer inside it, and arm them to win it for you.

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Finalised Isn't Final

We signed off a Diwali design for TUMI. Then a VP pulled it back. A quiet lesson about where design decisions really get made.

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The Graveyard Won

The idea I threw away became the whole system. A story about showing your rejected work, and why clients love the reject you buried.

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The Day Your Interface Disappears

Ten principles for making software feel less like an interface and more like instinct.

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How Do You Design a Democracy for 173 Million People?

India’s first general election was not only a political achievement. It was a vast exercise in inclusive system design.

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The Map That Lied So London Could Make Sense

Harry Beck’s Underground map abandoned geographical accuracy and became more truthful about the journey people were actually making.

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When Every Alarm Is Urgent, None Is

Three Mile Island showed that displaying information is not the same as helping somebody understand a crisis.

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Designing for Someone Moving at 70 mph

Britain’s road signs show what happens when typography, language and environment are treated as one system.

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A City Compressed Into Four Characters

The I ❤️ NY identity shows how a tourism campaign became a sentence people could complete with their own feelings.