Week 7 - Information Design vs Visual(Interface) Design

A tidbit of information ...

What is the difference between courseware and web based?

Courseware (CD ROM based) - Flowchart has START to END
Website - There is NO START, NO END, it is all about user control

Information design
- it is all about Learning Strategy
- FOCUS FOCUS FOCUS!
- Focus on the purpose of the website, adopt the necessary plan to achieve that purpose

Side Note..
What is Authentic Learning?

Storyboard vs Thumbnails?

Simple answer:
A thumbnail is just one, single rough sketch, or a reduced size version of a full sized image. 

A story board shows a sequence of drawings, indicating a series of events. A storyboard CAN be made up of a series of thumbnail sketches.

Detailed answer:
Thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a normal text index does for words. In the age of digital images, visual search engines and image-organizing programs normally use thumbnails, as do most modern operating systems or desktop environments, such as Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, KDE, and GNOME. 

Storyboards are graphic organizers such as a series of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence, including website interactivity. 

For me, after the lesson thought, Information design is the most important design component compared to interaction and interface design. Information design is the what makes a specific website a hit or a flop.  Developers should pay a lot of their attention to focus on this aspect.