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Toilets and Restroom Signage Options
Wayfinding signage: toilets or restrooms? Strategies for the use of icons and internationally recognised signs to avoid confusion.
Fingerpost Signage Guide Post
What are Fingerpost Signs You very likely walk past fingerpost signage just about every day, whether it is on the way to work or when using a transportation hub, or when walking through a university campus. Finger posts are pretty much as you would expect from the...
Bay and Park Heritage Trails Planning and Wayfinding
Wayfinding planning and evaluation services for bay and park trails, walking and cycling routes and outdoor tracks. Signage and orientation consultancy.
Colour Coding Signage for Easier Navigation
Using colours for the wayfinding experience and for navigation in travel and tourism spaces. Colour coding signage and directional signs.
How to Design and Use Arrows on Signage for Wayfinding
In this lesson on wayfinding, we will look at arrows on signage for when you are designing with navigation and wayfinding in mind! Introduction Hi, I’m Dr Paul Symonds and I’m the Wayfinding Expert.
Digital Networked Signage Systems
Manage signage centrally from one computer. Digitally networked signage systems for advertising, wayfinding, information, and settings.
Creating a Heritage Narrative for Airport Users UX User Experience
Building a heritage narrative for your wayfinding airport user experience (UX. Developing commercial opportunities via route development.
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...
Commercial Sales Opportunities in Airports Using Wayfinding
Commercial opportunities in airports for managers. Storefront and spending behaviour, seating planning, placement of FIDS and sales.
10 Common Signage Design Mistakes Made in Wayfinding
Signage Design Mistakes to avoid. Designing navigation and wayfinding. Decision points, sign maintenance, clutter & signs hierarchy.
5 Inaccessible Dilemmas for Wheelchair Users on Train Journeys
The issues that disabled users experience when travelling are often not understood. Learn 5 experience from a wheelchair user on the UK rail network.
Birmingham International Airport (BHX), UK Wayfinding Case Study
Learn more about the wayfinding study and audit we did for Birmingham International Airport in the England, UK.
Navigating NYC. Wayfinding in the Big Apple
Navigating NYC and using apps, maps and landmarks. New York City wayfinding in Little Italy, Broadway, Manhattan. Signage and signs.
University Modules, Lessons and Classes to Teach Wayfinding
University modules, lessons and classes in wayfinding, and human geography. Online courses, or offline course materials for teachers and trainers.
Wayfinding as a Social Activity and Sociocultural Experience – How Navigation Is a Human-Centered Experience Read the Ph.D.
Wayfinding as a Social Activity and sociocultural experience. Learn how navigation is a human-centered experience and read the Ph.D.
Wayfinding Design Principles – Understanding Real-World Wayfinding
Wayfinding and seeing it as a social and cultural practice and a key wayfinding design principles and as an embodied sociology based process.
20 Best Websites and Blogs About Wayfinding
20 Best wayfinding websites and blogs to learn placemaking, directions, and signage design. Wayfaring indoors, maps and social psychology.
Wayfinding for Beginners eBook – FREE!
Free eBook on Wayfinding Design for Beginners eBook to learn the fundamentals of wayfinding and designing locations and signage to guide people with directions.
Cardiff Bay Trail – A Model for Walkable Cities in Europe
Cardiff Bay Trail and the bay trail path and waterfront blueprint. Wayfinding for walkers, pedestrians, blind and disabled users.
Helping Special Assistance Passengers in Gatwick Airport
Report on Gatwick Airport special assistance in London, England. Wheelchair access, disabled parking, and seating. Helpers and buggy support.
Wayfinding Signage Design Online Training Course
Learn wayfinding online with this online course that you do in your own time from your own computer screen.
Wayfinding Design Principles and Signage
Wayfinding Design Principles and the art of wayfinding. Creative design for navigation and direction finding. Gatwick & Birmingham airports.
Where Can I study Wayfinding or Wayfinding Training?
Wayfinding and studies training. Online courses for studying. UK and USA navigation for tourism, geography. urban planning and architecture.
Designing Walkable Cities Using Wayfinding
Wayfinding for walkable cities, for sustainable cities and development. Designing walkable cities for mental health, elderly and disabled.