Information/Instructional Design - Definition

Information Design - refers to the design of presenting data and or information with the number one priority of presenting it in the easiest most efficient way that a user can absorb it. Information designed systems generally have present data in a way that tends to mimic the way humans learn thus making it the most efficient delivery of the data.

Instructional Design - is similar to Information Design in the sense that its priority in design is to most efficiently deliver the information to the user, the only main difference is that Instructional Design is displaying “how to do something” as apposed to regular data or information.