Wayfinding can be defined as spatial problem solving. It is knowing where you are in a building or an environment, knowing where your desired location is, and knowing how to get there from your present location.
Wayfinding?
Wayfinding Articles
Clean, Classic, Compelling—Wayfinding New York's Roosevelt Island
Read Time: 7.5 minutes
Entro | CVEDesign (New York) joined forces with The Hudson Companies, Inc., the Roosevelt Island Operating Corporation and the local community to provide an enduring wayfinding and placemaking solution for the area’s growing population.
 The Best Content of 2018 |
 Delmore "Buddy" Daye Learning Institute |
Thoughts and Opinions
What is Wayfinding? Part 2—The City as a Model
Read Time: 3.5 minutes
In the 1960s, an educator and urban planner named Kevin Lynch first used the term “wayfinding” in his book “The Image of the City" and, while this model is organized around the context and features of a city, it can be applied to most built environments—for example, a shopping mall also has paths, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks.
 Wayfinding for Skiers |
 What is Wayfinding? Part 1—It's All About Human Needs |
Explore SEGD Award Winners
 Here to There |
 Tapestry in King's Cross |
 Silesia Museum Wayfinding |
 SFMOMA: Identity and Placemaking |
SEGD Talks - Wayfinding videos
 Stephen Minning - Innovating the Passenger Experience |
 2017 Wayfinding Boston - Dialogue |
Wayfinding Best Practice
Wayfinding Academic Research
Wayfinding EGD Specialists
Wayfinding EGD Firms
The Buzz: Wayfinding Web Links
SEGD Wayfinding Podcasts
The ideal way to learn from your desk. These courses consist of podcast recordings of webinar and workshop materials delivered by the top professionals in EGD in the SEGD community.
$10 for individual Podcasts and $30 for the Podcast collections (best value) for members. Click for content details.
 |
|
 |
 |
SEGD Toolbox
Wayfinding News
Q&A with BrandCulture's Julian Frood on Innovating the Passenger Experience
Read Time: <1 minute
Recently, experiential graphic design and communication firm, BrandCulture (Sydney) posted a Q&A with one of their designers, Julian Frood, about designing a better passenger experience for commuters.
Jackie and Harold Spielman Children's Library
Read Time: 1 minute
Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership recently completed interpretive planning, interior architectural design, exhibit and graphic design services for the renovation of the Jackie and Harold Spielman Children’s Library, at Port Washington Public Library (Port Washington, N.Y.).
Wayfinding EGD Events
SEGD Index
Use the SEGD Indexto view pages that summarize content across the site according to the term you choose.
Practice Areas
Digital Experience Content
Exhibition
Interactive Experiences
Placemaking and Identity
Public Installation
Strategy - Research - Planning
Wayfinding
Industry Verticals
Corporate
Education
Exhibitions
Healthcare
Hospitality
Industrial
Museums
Recreation
Retail
Residential
Sports
Transportation
Urban and Civic
Visitor Centers
Workplace
EGD Fundamentals
Accessibility/ADA
Branding
Business of Design
Content
Content Management
Design Research
Design Thinking
Digital Technology
Documentation
Donor Recognition
Experience Design
Hierarchy
Identity
Information Design
Interface Design
Legibility
Mapping
Materials
Motion Design
Nomenclature
Project Management
Specification
Sustainability
Symbol Design
Systems Design
Typography
Universal Design
Related Topics
Digital Screen Media
Digital Signage
Signage
Graphic Design
Smart Cities
