Wayfinding Design and Mental Maps

From Signs to Minds

Jury Award
From Signs to Minds, Wayfinding Design and Mental Maps, Middlebury College, Michaela Skiles

How could wayfinding signage be designed to not only help people get from one place to another, but also help them learn about the layout of their environment along the way? Michaela Skiles, a student at Middlebury College (Middlebury, Vt.) investigated this question through a two-stage project of design and evaluation, completed over the course of her undergraduate geography thesis and published in the Cartographic Journal.

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