First, let’s bust a couple of myths surrounding the Digital Wayfinding Application cost (with your permission, Adam and Jamie). It is expensive to Create a Digital Wayfinding System… Not True. A one-building hospital can have a Digital Wayfinding System for around US$25k. That includes a Wayfinding Application on a Kiosk and a Wayfinding Application on the [...]
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Digital Wayfinding: Kiosk, Web or Mobile?
One of the questions I frequently receive : What is the best way to display the Digital Wayfinding Application? On a Kiosk, the Web or on a Mobile Phone? This is indeed a very good question because everyone wants the investment to pay off. To be as effective as possible. In Digital Wayfinding terms: The Wayfinding [...]
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[A question from one of my respected readers] Dear Ron, Sorry to bother you again but I found something very interesting on your site with regards to “on campus mobile wayfinding used for smart phones, for indoor and outdoor usage” would you able to be more specific and maybe even give me the name of [...]
READ MORE »Indoor Digital Wayfinding 2012: Round Trip
State College, April 3rd, 2012 Indoor Digital Wayfinding 2012 “Round Trip” Wayfinding has been the domain of traditional static wayfinding signage since the beginning of times. “Has been”, as in the last decade, digital wayfinding for outdoor environments initiated a very successful new way of wayfinding. First in the form of a wayfinder device in the car, and well, [...]
READ MORE »Will Digital Signage solve the ongoing wayfinding issues in Hospitals?
(August 17-2011, State College PA, USA) It is often jokingly said that the national symbol for a hospital is ‘the Crane’. To keep up with regulations and service levels many hospitals appear to be in a constant state of re-organization. While hospitals make an excellent effort in keeping this as unnoticeable as possible for their [...]
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READ MORE »Indoor Wayfinding; The Way
Interactive Indoor Wayfinding Systems This should probably be one of the first articles you need to read, if you are faced with the challenge to provide an interactive wayfinding system for your building or campus, to improve the experience of ‘getting around’. As mentioned in previous articles, the reason for improving wayfinding is to ease [...]
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Hospital Wayfinding: There is no excuse for a visitor to get lost in your building again, ever. The following describes a full circle interactive wayfinding system for a Hospital: On-site, through a LCD touch screen and use of Smart-Phone; Online, through an online wayfinding system attached to your homepage With department-to-department directions …and your staff/volunteers can use [...]
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A good wayfinding system shows clearly, and to-the-point: Where am I Select destination How do I get there Where am I? 1. You Are Here! ‘You Are Here!’ needs to be the first thing that draws the attention. Represented as a blinking dot or otherwise clear indicator on the map of your building. By showing [...]
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Your Indoor Wayfinding Application can be offered online, for anyone to use who is connected to the internet. The wayfinding Application will reside on your public web pages for anyone to access and you can link to it from your homepage, through a ‘directions’ button or text link. It is smart to mirror the online wayfinding application to the [...]
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