Information/ Instructional Design : Examples

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Mesü Bowls
These bowls were designed in mind of the growing state of obesity within the Western world, but manage to inform an eater in a subtle and non-intimidating way of the amount they are eating. Circles in pastel colours are located on the side and inside of each bowl symbolically representing the designated amount that can fit into each bowl, starting at 1/2 a cup and going up in increments of a 1/4 all the way to two cups. It is informative, yet makes portion control for dieters not so in-your-face.




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The Surplus and the Debt
To make a somewhat incomprehensible and complex topic such as the economy and the monstrosity of national debt into a topic that is easier to understand requires a lot of simplicity and perhaps patience with a sound grasp of the general knowledge known by the targeted audience. This selection of screenshots from the short film by Explanation Graphics, The Surplus and the Debt, breaks down to using symbols to explain things at the most fundamental level and builds up from there, relating it to objects that one can visualise in order to make a comparison of the quantity they are explaining. All in all, it uses almost a quirky sense of humor to make sense of a topic that effects us on an international scale and yet is generally not very well understood.




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Airline Saftey Cards
For something as in the case of an emergency on an airplane, there is no room for error when it comes to saftey, particularly no room for miss-interpretation. Developed for passengers of the B737, the storyboard layout of the emergency instructions uses minimal words for the instructions to avoid having large amounts of text for translation as well as colour highlighting to pinpoint important descriptions. It easily bring the message across to any passenger no matter what language they speak in a very clear and concise manner by categorising the type of emergency and the actions to take in such an event.