Much of the documentation that is of use to information designers is to be found in journals rather than books, but both are a key source of knowledge and information
The Information Design Journal (IDJ)
The IDJ is a peer reviewed international journal that bridges the gap between research and practice in information design.It’s is a platform for discussing and improving the design, usability, and overall effectiveness of ‘content put into form’—of verbal and visual messages shaped to meet the needs of particular audiences. IDJ offers a forum for sharing ideas about the verbal, visual, and typographic design of print and online documents, multimedia presentations, illustrations, signage, interfaces, maps, quantitative displays, websites, and new media. IDJ brings together ways of thinking about creating effective communications for use in contexts such as workplaces, hospitals, airports, banks, schools, or government agencies.
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A Dillon, Designing Usable Electronic Text: Ergonomic aspects of human information usage, Taylor and Francis, 2003, ISBN 074840113X
J Hartley, Designing Instructional Text, Stylus, 1999, ISBN 074941037X
R E Horn, Visual Language: Global communication for the 21st century, MacroVu Press, 1999, ISBN 189263709X
R Jacobson (ed), Information Design, MIT Press, 1999, ISBN 026210069X
E Orna, Making knowledge visible: Communicating knowledge through information products, Gower, 2005, ISBN 0566085631
K A Schriver, Dynamics in Document Design, John Wiley & Sons, 1996, ISBN 0471306363
E T Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press, 1992, ISBN 096139210X
H Zwaga, T Boersema and H Hoonhout (eds), Visual Information for Everyday Use: Design and research perspectives, Taylor and Francis, 1998, (currently out of print)
D Sless and R Penman (eds), Designing Information for People, Communication Research Institute of Australia, 1994 (currently out of print)