VisionPlus’26
Information design and civic administration: trust, tradition and toxicity
Thursday 28 - Friday 29 May 2026
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Chiara Fioravanti
VisionPlus ‘26
Testing visual simplified administrative texts with users from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds
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Chad Hall
VisionPlus ‘26
Teaching information visualization through Quantified Self
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Mandar Rane
VisionPlus ‘26
Exploring design of icons for motorised ICU beds
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Peter Stoyko
VisionPlus’26
SIGILS for Civic Infrastructure Explainability - large data systems made understandable
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David Sless
VisionPlus’26
If there is no before, there is no after!
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Rachel Warner
VisionPlus’26
Ways to effectively communicate the process of making a police complaint in the UK
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Emily Allbon
VisionPlus’26
Ways to effectively communicate the process of making a police complaint in the UK
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Paula Martin Rivero
VisionPlus’26
Designing Accountability: The Frontex Complaints Mechanism as an Information Design System
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Liuhuaying Yang
VisionPlus’26
Transliteration as a shared administrative compromise that arises when names, identities, and records move across linguistic, technical, and institutional boundaries.
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Raman Khanna
VisionPlus’26
Information Design as a change facilitator: Think Policy and the Ashoka Cisco Cohort in Indonesia
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Nathaniel Rayestu
Information Design as a change facilitator: Think Policy + the Ashoka Cisco Cohort in Indonesia
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Aureliano Capri
VisionPlus’26
Which language for shared administration? Information design in public policy making.
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Sakshi Patel
VisionPlus’26
Human-centered redesign of antenatal care
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Barbara Weingartshofer
VisionPlus’26
The Gender Gap in Design
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Heike Nehl
VisionPlus’26
Information Design for the new Entry Exit System by the European Union
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Ritik Shah
VisionPlus’26
The Indian metro systems as a form of civic communication
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Lotje van den Burg
VisionPlus’26
How people may find their way in 2035 - transparency, cognitive load, stress, and institutional power
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Stefan Egger
VisionPlus’26
Notes, Laws, and the lens of knowledge
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Geanina Turcanu
VisionPlus’26
Un-rigging Environmental Justice UX Ecosystems by redesigning the Information Architecture of the Aarhus Convention visualization
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Joshi Purba
VisionPlus’26
Food packaging at the intersection of civic regulation, commercial persuasion, and everyday consumer decision-making - design activism within regulatory frameworks
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Juan Carlos de Jesús Ramírez González
VisionPlus’26
Documents that mediate care: benchmarking medical information materials for people with breast cancer in public hospitals
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Selina Steiner
VisionPlus’26
Designing a Cantonal Health Dashboard: From Fragmented Data to Shared Visual Understanding
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Maja Riegler
VisionPlus’26
Designing a Cantonal Health Dashboard: From Fragmented Data to Shared Visual Understanding
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Arun Ganesh
VisionPlus’26
Open source volunteer-driven mapping to fix information asymmetry
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Robin Coenen
VisionPlus’26
What Can GovTech Learn from CivicTech? — Bottom-Up Practices and Visual Strategies
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Bhairavi Balasubramanian
VisionPlus’26
Policy ambiguities - a wicked governing tool
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Martin Foessleitner
VisionPlus’26
Albert Camus and Information Design
Civic administration is built on documents to guide and support public life. Examples of these documents are licenses (driving, hunting, fishing), forms, governmental websites, regulations (parking signs, local trash disposal), anything with taxes, labelling (food, chemicals, medicines), passport applications, visa and residence permits, immigration processes, and anything to do with voting systems.
These seemingly neutral artifacts aim to enable citizens to smoothly arrange administrave matters. In contrast, these documents often also represent toxic processes: bureaucratic opacity, inequity, discrimination, and systemic failure.
Civic communications enable all citizens to interact with government smoothly and without errors. Civil servants strive to communicate clearly and many departments employ information designers and writers. There are great examples where interactions are effective and go flawless, fast, and pleasant.
But there are major challenges. All societies include a large number of people who struggle with literacy, language or digital access. They are among those who are most in need of social benefits. And there are documented cases where politicians appear to have used complex bureaucratic processes to discourage people from claiming their entitlements.
This is why we want to interrogate the role of information design in government interactions, together with designers, government representatives, and other professionals who work within this field.
We invited papers and case studies that interrogate the role of information design in government interactions.
How do these documents shape citizens’ experience of a government?
When does clarity empower—and when does it conceal?
How might information designers resist harmful administrative systems?
What responsibilities do information designers bear when working on civic infrastructure?
In other words: ‘Let’s discuss what civic administration looks like—and what it enables.’
More about previous VisionPlus conferences on the IIID Website
VisionPlus Conference is an initiative of the International Institute for Information Design (IIID).