Sunday, February 2, 2014

CoCA Wayfinding response

The CoCa website will surely be helpful in reviewing how we've approached our prototypes and testing. CoCA wayfinding presents a detailed checklist for things to keep in mind when designing all manners of wayfinding tools. An interesting point to me was the standard method for inclusion or omission of capital letters, as well as strategies for spacing in text based on the font that is being used.As with so many things, the devil is in the details, and issues such as legibility are something that may be overlooked, even though they are very important. Reading through the list of suggestions made me realize how few places take into account even half of the entire system laid out by CoCA, and how we often generally resign ourselves to doing the best we can when it comes to finding our way in these awful systems.

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