In the beginning my collective and I thought that the task to create a whole wayfinding system for North Greenwich in only one week is tough and really stressful.
However, we started with the brief right away and managed to finish it before the deadline.
On Monday we visited the North Greenwich Station and created a questionnaire to find more out about the already existing navigation signs. Referring to our trip it really helped us to get inspired for our final outcome. Furthermore it showed us that sometimes it is necessary to involve a wide range of people to create something that talks or response or even helps them.
Working in my group was really fun and effective. Everybody focused on the brief and had different ideas on how to come up with a general system. I also think that it is important to learn working in groups because usually when you work as a designer you need to be able to cooperate and be a part of a group. I also enjoyed working with my two peers because I have never worked with them before so I did not know their opinions and points of view.
Looking at the ideas we had and how we improved on them I think that the decisions in a collective are more considered in terms of functionality, design and target audience. In fact of this our outcome was almost ready to transfer.
Furthermore it was easy to split tasks between us because everybody acted tolerant towards the others.
Looking at the work we had to get done after University, each of us did what they were supposed to do so we were able to count on each other and to manage the time.
Because we designed our presentation as we went along and made new decisions we also focused on the layout and design of our sheets and did not have to rush on the last day.
Unfortunately on the day of presentation one of my peers were sick and could not support and present with us. However, she sent me her part of research so we had all of our presentation together and ready to present even before deadline.
Evaluation our outcome I think it is a good way to navigate tourists not speaking English as well as disabled people. Because our sign bases on a colour and texture coded system it is easy to understand for everybody and even fun to look at for children.
The critique of placing only one sign is not enough, helped us to look at different parts of North Greenwich for arriving people. Because of that we placed several signs around the area which explain our navigation system.
The other issue we had that even though we included textures to be followed, blind people would still have a problem finding those. To improve that we developed our texture coded pathways by having lines of the different textures so blind people could just follow those and do not have to find partly places shapes.
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