Information Design Consultancy

At 3di we believe that the better the design of information, the easier it is to develop and the more effective it will be when delivered.

How well information is written and organised is critical to its value as a  productivity-enhancing asset for your organization.  3di is the perfect partner to help ensure your information is designed to deliver real benefits.

To help our customers with design, we use the idea of an information model. This model represents the communication and authoring challenges and illustrates how they can best be solved. A well-designed information model should deliver the following benefits:

• Quicker and easier for information owners to contribute
• Less duplication and wasted effort
• Easier to reuse good information
• Quicker for readers to find what they need
• Easier to demonstrate compliance to regulations
• Consistency of style throughout the organization

Information can be divided into modules, each self-contained and having a specific function. By using modules as the basic building blocks of an information model, you are help to ensure that your model is flexible, like Lego®.

Information models help you to organize information needs and have become critical in designing effective content management systems.

Modularity makes it easier to reuse, maintain, and single-source information. Modularity is also a useful way of creating patterns in information. Readers subconsciously look for and respond to patterns, and this helps them to read and understand information more quickly. Translation also becomes quicker, cheaper and easier to manage when the source has been written in a modular way, particularly when multiple languages are involved.

Establishing a model, which will significantly improve the way your organization performs, is less about look-and-feel than about communicating solid, basic rules and then making it easy for people to follow them.  Using the proven Information Mapping® methodology, 3di has the expertise to consult on and implement powerful new standards for your organization that are cost effective.