Designing Street Signs for Speedy Response
Sign design can spur faster action
Sign design can spur faster action
At the Healthcare Design Conference in San Diego, Farrington and Garbier, a signage design expert and a landscape architect, respectively (both with several decades of experience), shared insights on effective signage for healthcare facilities.
The typefaces selected for use in signage and other applications have emotional associations for viewers.
Signage for wayfinding and other purposes should be visually symmetrical.
British practitioners/researchers installed a new signage system in several hospitals (images are available at the website noted below).
Research at Vanderbilt confirms how important it is to provide in-room signage that allows patients to learn and remember information about their physicians.
Kuhbandner and Pekrun studied how the color of writing influences how well information in written messages is remembered.
Electronic billboards distract drivers.
Effective signage and maps are an important component of many projects, particularly complex ones such as office complexes and healthcare facilities.
A transit case study highlights the value of using locally meaningful concepts during the design process.