This course aims to teach specific principles and methods pertaining to information design, an emerging discipline within visual communications design (graphic design) involving the selection, organization and presentation of information to a given audience, covering a wide and varied group of delivery mediums. Prerequisite: Admission to the M.F.A. program in Art and Design. Permission of department required.
Learning Outcomes1Generate creative solutions that make complex information easier to understand and use by specific audiences and users.
2Strengthen and engage conceptual skills.
3Conceptualize ideas, analyze data, and create information design and user-centered design.
4Demonstrate skills in the iterative-making process in graphic design, using incremental methods such as prototyping, user testing, and evaluation to build toward more advanced work.
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.