Information Design Conference 2007

Information Design Conferences are always organised to bring together a diverse group of practitioners and researchers, concerned with information’s usability and usefulness. This year our programme included presentations from nine countries in Europe and Asia, North and South America. About 120 people from 20 countries attended.

Several themes emerged, including:

• Wayfinding and signing
• Heath information & food labelling
• Interactive systems and instructions
• Designing communication in a regulatory environment
• Design models, theories & techniques

There were eighteen lecture presentations, plus a number of poster-exhibitions, displays and demonstrations. View a list of these and download a printable programme from our programme page.

Early reports

Immediately following the conference, Karel van der Waarde, Dave Crossland and Conrad Taylor put together a short report, with photographs.

Another report, with more detail and reflections on selected posters as well as presentations, is on Caroline Jarrett’s blog.

Conference outputs

We did not make it a condition of participation in the conference that our presenters deliver publishable papers. This was to encourage participation from the design industry, and presentation of work in progress.

In time, we hope to add papers in PDF format to this site, and also to post slide-shows. Most of the presentations were audio recorded, and may be posted as downloadable audio files, perhaps synchronised with slides.

Other goodies

For the amusement of conference delegates, Conrad Taylor wrote a 12-page illustrated history of Greenwich, the Thames and East London.