TCOM 3431:Information Design I

3 Class Hours 0 Laboratory Hours 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: TCOM 2010, TCID 2002. Non-majors: by permission of the Department
The course introduces students to the principles and best practices of effective information design for both print and electronic media. Students apply rhetorical and gestalt principles to an analysis of information products. Students also redesign products to reflect good principles of information design, and they report on the rationale for these redesigns, showing the ways in which design principles have been effectively applied.