Nodes of Design#63: Information Design by Jason Forrest

Jason Forrest is a data visualization specialist, writer, and designer living in New York City. He is the director of interactive data visualization for McKinsey and Company's COVID Response Center. In addition to being on the board of directors of the Data Visualization Society, he is also the editor-in-chief of Nightingale: the journal of the Data Visualization Society. He writes about the intersection of culture and information design and is currently working on a book about pictorial statistics.

In this episode, Jason shared great insights on what is information design and its importance; we then discussed how different is information design compared to Data Visualisation and the information design process. In the later part, we discussed how to design Information for Usability and accessibility. 

Takeaways- What is information design? How to design with a beautiful blend of data and user experience. Designing information for accessibility. 

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