Wayfinding training, signs, signage, audits, dda and navigation design.

Advice for Implementing a Hospital Wayfinding Strategy

In this post, we look at Hospital Wayfinding and implementing a strategy to make it as easy as possible for visitors to find around these complex buildings. There are many ways in which you can guarantee a more efficient and better-planned hospital and medical centre...

Outdoor Events Signage Ideas: Glastonbury Music Festival Case Study

Designing outdoor events signage brings its own challenges. Wayfinding signage must be usable for all-weather types and often needs to be suitable for short events involving massive numbers of users. Designing a way to provide directions and good navigational...

Different Types of Wayfinding Signs

There are different types of wayfinding signage that are used in wayfinding and navigation design and, in this post, I will explain these different types, their uses and the differences between each of them. Signs and signage, as you may appreciate, are different...

Wayfinding Case Study – Crocodiles of the World Attraction

The latest wayfinding case study is from Crocodile World in the UK. Sitemap of Crocodile World as you enter the attraction What is Crocodile World? Crocodile World is an amazing attraction in Brize Norton, England, that is certainly worth visiting if you get the...

Digital Wayfinding Technology and Getting Started

If you are new to wayfinding and not familiar with the different technologies, trying to start planning a wayfinding system can be quite overwhelming and a difficult task. So in this post, I am going to go through many of the latest digital wayfinding technology to...

11 Ways to Kick-start your Wayfinding Strategy

In charge of guiding people in a location and need to know more about developing a Wayfinding Strategy? There is an art to guiding users, whether it be guiding them through an airport, a university campus, along a bay trail, through an urban area, shopping mall,...

Wayfinding Planning Process & Procedures Tips

Understanding exactly what ‘Wayfinding’ is can perhaps be confusing and understandably so. So in this post let us look at wayfinding planning process and procedures and what is generally involved. Many people naturally, when first introduced to the term...

DDA Compliance Access for Wheelchair users on Holiday

Access for disabled travellers has arguably improved a lot in the last twenty years, yet there is still so much that can be done and which should be done. Still there are many situations and travel environments which fail to provide in the way they should, for...

Improving DDA Accessibility for Disabled People

Signage makers and designers often place signs which are not, for example, so easily visible by those sitting in a wheelchair and with a lower angle of vision. Designers might also incorrectly assume the routes which a user needs to take. On arriving in an airport, a...

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...