Information Overload, Why it Matters and How to Combat It

Designers often need to convey information to the users of their designs. Specialists in information visualization design in particular find themselves presenting data over and over again to their users. However, it’s important when developing your designs that you don’t create “information overload” – that is presenting so much data that you leave the user confused and/or unable to make a decision.Author/Copyright holder: Pietro Zanarini. Copyright terms and licence: CC BY 2.0 Just look at all these sources of information, above, and they barely represent a fraction of the sources of information available to us today.A Brief History of Information OverloadThe term “information overload” w... https://goo.gl/hYDEHJ