Cocawayfinding

After exploring the Cocawayfinding tumblr page, I was given a lot to think about in regards to our wayfinding set up and how we could best provide a solution to navigating the Mississippi St. Parking Garage. While most of the types of things the Cocawayfinding tumblr page listed as keys to sussessful wayfinding were somewhat common sense there were a few things that were listed that I realized could be easily overlooked. Many of the things listed almost seemed minor, but when I really got to thinking about how those small things could have an impact on a viewer or users experience I realized how impactful those little things can actually be. For instance the very first two things listed on the site were, “Be consistent with text and graphic devices and the location of signage throughout the system.” and “Use upper and lower case letters for highest legibility except in the case of single word signage.” When I read the first bullet point my first thought was that that was somewhat obvious, and I almost couldn’t understand why they needed to list that because I thought that would just be the kind of thing everyone does. When I read the next point I again thought that it made sense and wasn’t neccessarily all that important, but then I thought back to times when I’ve considered using all caps or all lower case on signs that have sentences and how ineffective that was for the project. Upon thinking about this I realized that even some of the things that seem obvious or not that important really can have a big impact. 

With these things in mind I continued to read the article paying close attention to everything I read, even if it seemed not very important. This site was excellent in providing a sort of checklist to make sure that all out choices in our own wayfinding project made sense and would be best utilized to truly solve the problem of people trying to navigate the parking garage.