Human Factors in Wayfinding Archives - Wayfinding & Navigation Expert

What is Wayfinding?

Wayfinding is the cognitive and corporeal process and experience of locating, following or discovering a route through and to a given space (Symonds et al, 2017). There are also others elements to wayfinding (way faring and way finding) and we discuss these below. You...

Wayfinding Design Principles – Understanding Real-World Wayfinding

There are a number of wayfinding design principles that are worth trying to understand if you are involved in guiding users around a location. You might be an architect, a signage maker, the manager of a location such as a shopping mall, university campus, hospital,...

Designing Walkable Cities Using Wayfinding

The idea of designing Walkable Cities is a trend that is developing on the back of the “Smart Cities” movement and as greater awareness of sustainable and social issues comes into the wayfinding discourse. The movement for designing walkable cities...

Texting Walking Accidents and Distracted Walking Accidents using Mobile & Cellphones

The number of texting walking accidents has risen dramatically in recent years and so in this post we look at the concept of Distracted Walking. Any of you who read my previous post on the dangers of using mobile technologies when navigating, will not be surprised and...

Mindful Walking and Distracted Wayfinding. Re-Learning How to Explore

Have we forgotten how to get lost? How to explore and how to relax? In this post I look at Mindful Walking! We so often try to multi-task believing that we are saving time, including when we are wayfinding when we are navigating around a location. The concept of...

Helping Blind and Visually Impaired Travellers and DDA Solutions

Trying to find solutions to improve the experience for blind travellers is not generally a commercially viable process. Yet, by law, in many countries, all passengers have the right to accessible travel. The DDA regulations have, for example, tried to address this. In...