Design · Craft & Applied Design
A topic within Craft & Applied Design, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Design.
2 works
Auckland Transport
Argues that a legible wayfinding system is built from a consistent hierarchy of decision points across a whole transport network, not from signage added after a route is already confusing, and sets out standards for that hierarchy.
James J. Kellaris & Karen A. Machleit
Proposes a conceptual model of how a sign's objective traits, a viewer's characteristics and the surrounding context combine to determine whether signage is noticed, understood and acted on, and uses it to organise a fragmented research literature.
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