The Information Design Association (IDA) was launched at a meeting chaired by

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at the Royal Society of Arts in London on 14 May 1991. in the belief that 'Good information design results in the clear and effective presentation of information. It combines skills in graphic design, writing, and human factors to make complex information easier to understand.' A multi-disciplinary membership organisation for practitioners, the

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and all those interested in information design, it has organised many evening meetings with visiting speakers, and a number of Information Design Conferences (the first five of which had been run by the ''Information Design Journal'' (IDJ), which had many links with the IDA), most recently in 2014. Writing at the end of the 1990s, Robert E. Horn summed up the IDA's international contribution in its first decade:

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Information Design Journal
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