What is Communication Design?

Communication design is a compound word with two meanings: (1) traffic in a broad sense that includes emotions such as information exchange and interpersonal communication, and (2) rational design based on planning, which means (1) design principles and practices to improve the efficiency of information and communication, and (2) specific design and practice of appropriate interpersonal communication among humans.

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I once defined it as follows. Communication design is about designing human communication, designing human communication.

The definition of communication here is "the general phenomenon of information and data becoming 'common' in the transition of time phases. And the definition of design is "a way of solving problems for people. As such a compound word, communication design is defined as "solving problems in order to 'make information and data common' among people.

Definition of Information Design

In contrast, there is a term for this: information design. Wikipedia (English) defines it as "the practice of presenting information in the process of understanding it in an efficient/effective manner.


"Information design is the practice of presenting information in a way that fosters efficient and effective understanding of it." - Information design

Since information is the content of the traffics (transmission process) in communication, information design is, simply put, encompassed in the sub-domain of communication design.