disOrder

experience design

Information designers tell us that the structure of data influences meaning. According to Nathan Shedroff, meaning increases as data is turned into information, information is filtered through experience to create knowledge, and knowledge is transformed by understanding into wisdom.

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When the purpose of a web site is not just to push raw data or simple information, but to provide an aesthetic or knowledge-building experience, the "rules" for both design and linking become more fluid. It may no longer be necessary that the reader knows exactly where a link will go, or that s/he takes the shortest route, or that s/he is sure exactly where s/he is and how much of the web s/he has read at any one point.

• the experience of felicitous connections
• the experience of no/where over now/here