Design in the Age of Information: A Report to the National Science Foundation (NSF)

The Information Age is upon us it has become a global force in our everyday lives. But the promise of significant benefits from this revolution, which has been driven largely by technologists, will not be realized without more careful planning and design of information systems that can be integral to the simultaneously emerging user-cultures. In cultural terms, information systems must be effective, reliable, affordable, intuitively meaningful, and available anytime and everywhere. In this phase of the information revolution, design will be essential. Disciplines Communication | Social and Behavioral Sciences Author(s) Daniel Boyarski, Reinhart Butter, Klaus Krippendorff, Richard Solomon, James Tomlinson, and Walter Wiebe This government publication is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/asc_papers/96 Design in the Age of Information A Report to the National Science Foundation (NSF) By: Daniel Boyarski . Reinhart Butter Klaus Krippendorff (Editor) Richard Solomon James Tomlinson (Principal Investigator) Walter Wiebe Raleigh, North Carolina July 31, 1997 Ingrid Limmer (Typography) This report is a compilation of the proceedings, notes, and added material from a 1996 workshop, Design@2006, held in Raleigh, North Carolina, supported by the National Science Foundation, Interactive Systems Program, under Grant No. IRI~ 9529141, with additional funding from North Carolina State University. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this report do not represent a consensus of the steering committee, nor do they necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or North Carolina State University. The body of the report is uncopyrighted material: please distribute freely. Papers in section 7 may be copyrighted; questions about reproduction of papers should be directed to the authors (see appendix A). 500 copies of this report were printed and distributed by: Design Research Laboratory School of Design North Carolina State University Campus Box 770 1 Raleigh, NC 27695~7701 Tel 919~515~7337