从工具走向新理论的信息设计

Information Design: from a New Tool to a New Theory

信息设计作为一种新生事物,倍受质疑:它扮演的仅仅是一种新工具,还是意味着一个新的设计理论的诞生。文中试图从工具和理论的衡量标准,即信息设计是否能够进行设计思考,是否引起或即将引起设计方法、设计过程、设计的形态空间理论的变革出发,揭示信息设计已不仅仅停留在设计工具阶段,正走向构建自己理论体系之路。

As a new thing, information design is oppugned. It is often questioned whether it is only a new tool or a new theory. From the differentiating criterions the authors indicate that information design does not just act as a design tool, but it is on the way of constructing its own theory system.