#wayfinding

2025-06-07

We’d better have separate icons for light rail and heavy rail or people will never be able to use the MBTA Green and Orange lines. Or the LA Metro A/E and B/D lines. #Transit #wayfinding

2025-06-07

We’d better have separate logos for the IRT, BMT and IND or people will never be able to understand how to use the subway #transit #wayfinding

Alastair Somervilleacuity.design@bsky.brid.gy
2025-06-06

“Voegelin defines stupidity as a “loss of reality.” The loss of reality means a “stupid” person cannot “rightly orient his action in the world, in which he lives” From #wayfinding perspective that seems valid

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:erktnkhex3vs7w7kbxde76ls/post/3lqxj2af3ac2u

Alastair Somervilleacuity.design@bsky.brid.gy
2025-06-03

Doing museum workshop in Netherlands for a couple of days. Spending time with the ideas of Welcomes, Accessibility and Lost'ness. Will doing some sensory safari/walking workshop exercises and talk about differing forms of being Lost in #Wayfinding

Diagram on three ways a person can be lost in a place at start, during and ending. How they can be misoriented and disoriented.
2025-05-26

Great new article from Pei Dang and colleagues on using #llm Large Language Models for #Wayfinding, comparing their performance with humans, and evaluating the impact of spatial perception and spatial memory, #GISchat, doi.org/10.1080/15230406.2024.

2025-05-24

Welcoming the double hull Hawaiian canoe, the Hokulea, to Hilo Bay. #sailing #voyaging #canoe #hawaii #wayfinding #ceremony #culture

The arrival of the double hull canoe Hokulea to Hilo Bay. People on the dock are pulling her in with a rope. 2 Hawaiian women watch while another Hawaiian woman blows a conch shell in welcome. The sky is blue and filled with fluffy white clouds.Hilo Bay welcomes the Hokulea. Hawaiian welcoming committee, with traditional clothing and drums.A Hawaiian woman stands on the Hokulea and chants. She wears bright yellow traditional clothing.A man drapes a lei over parts of the Hokulea
Alastair Somervilleacuity.design@bsky.brid.gy
2025-05-15

New walking workshop banner has arrived. For use in places so we can talk about Welcomes, accessibility and perception. Agency comes thru ability to recognise a place as usable from your perspective and knowledge of your capacities. These are the core #wayfinding needs of people in a new place.

Alastair Somervilleacuity.design@bsky.brid.gy
2025-05-13

How #wayfinding, perception and usability all mix together. Accessibility and agency mean that people know a place can be their place.

Couple of slides on how showing people where the facilities of a place are enables choices about personal comfort and agency.
2025-05-12

Another way technology makes boating easier: when people come to visit, all they need is a pin on a map.

Their phone's map app and in-car wayfinding narrator do the rest.

#CanalLife #canal #map #app #wayfinding #directions #visitor #boating #boat #narrowboat #tech #technology #GPS #smartphone #phone

Alastair Somervilleacuity.design@bsky.brid.gy
2025-05-02

Welcomes before Invitations. Chatting about new museum workshop and using their space to develop ideas. Perception seeks usability. This is about #accessibility, #ServiceDesign, #wayfinding and #CX

First 5 steps graphic about what people want to know when they enter a new space in order to deep it might be a place they can use.
Martijn Geerdesmartijn_geerdes
2025-04-22

@martinmajoor are there typical benefits for using it in or ? (Please answer within the 48 hours discount period!-)

Alastair Somervilleacuity.design@bsky.brid.gy
2025-04-14

BBC iPlayer on science behind motorways www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis... includes interview with Margaret Calvert on #WayFinding design and #GraphicDesign

The Secret Genius of Modern Li...

No Light No Lycra - NYCnlnlnyc@masto.nyc
2025-04-01

Oh I'm on one of these #new :gtrain: #subway cars! Very cool very continuous. The #wayfinding on the screens is a nice ux, but I can imagine a more refined version in the future.

Alastair Somervilleacuity.design@bsky.brid.gy
2025-03-23

Ironically for a #wayfinding specialist, sometimes I have to tell clients that the map and the touchpoints will not help them. People and community will. Quick post acuity.design/wayfinding-b...

Wayfinding: Beyond Maps, Towar...

Alastair Somervilleacuity.design@bsky.brid.gy
2025-03-21

For #wayfinding research, I’ve paced out how far the nearest toilets are to the main entrances of the 6 highlighted London museums. It was part of accessibility/Welcome work.

Top 10 list of UK visitor attraction - I’ve done British Museum, Natural History, Tate Modern, V&A, National Gallery and Science Museum
Alastair Somervilleacuity.design@bsky.brid.gy
2025-03-07

It appears Sainsbury’s has just given up on #Wayfinding (or realised that a big list is the simplest solution)

5 foot high cardboard sign in middle of superstore that lists where different foods are in the aisles. The aisle numbers are sticky taped in for easy changing

New signage dropped at MARTA Arts Center bus bays!

#Atlanta #Transit #MARTA #Signage #Wayfinding

Bus bay signage comprising of a big circled "F", and logo and route plates that read "MARTA Mobility, CCT Paratransit; CobbLinc 102 Acworth P/R; Gwinnett 103A Sugarloaf Mills". In the back hang the old versions of the signage.
Alastair Somervilleacuity.design@bsky.brid.gy
2025-02-23

Terminalia today. Roman festival of boundaries. #wayfinding depends on boundaries as people seek them, particularly when lost. Old post on ABCD theory acuity-design.medium.com/the-abcd-of-... B is for Boundaries

The ABCD of Human Centered Way...

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