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Towards a Pattern Language Approach to Document Description

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1. Background and context Information design is a relatively young discipline, which struggles with the lack of a usable descriptive framework. By usable, we...

1. Background and context 1Information design is a relatively young discipline, which struggles with the lack of a usable descriptive framework. By usable, we mean one that not only can be used to describe to a reasonable degree of formality the layout and typographical characteristics of a given communicative artefact, but one that can be used to teach or define effective design strategies that at present tend only to be known tacitly by experts. Examples of practical uses for a descriptive framework are when government regulators prescribe formats for consumer information, when publishers…

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