Disorderly Reasoning in Information Design
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The importance of information visualization as a means of transforming data into visual, understandable form is now embraced across university campuses and research institutes world-wide. Yet, the role of designers in this field of activity is often overlooked by the dominant scientific and technological interests in data visualization, and a corporate culture reliant on off-the-shelf visualization tools. This article is an attempt to describe the value of design thinking in information visualization with reference to Horst Rittel's (1988) definition of "disorderly reasoning," and to frame design as a critical act of translating between scientific, technical, and aesthetic interests.
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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60
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© 2009 ASIS&T. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Disorderly Reasoning in Information Design, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Vol. 60(9), 2009, pp. 1877-1882 which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/asi.21131. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-820227.html#terms)
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Information Systems not elsewhere classified
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