Vancouver Public Library Way Finding System Anezka Chua, Janine Wong, Wendy Huang
CONTEXT Vancouver Public Library 7 floors of resources, including magazines, books, and DVDs Located in Downtown Vancouver
PERSONA Nancy Sandeep 19-year-old undergraduate student Physics major Hardworking and studious
PROBLEMS Study Areas Navigation Quick and easy guidance STUDY Included only bare essentials to navigate AREAS Resources Efficiency Shorten time to find books Clarity of physical signage RESOURCES
SCENARIO Nancy Sandeep 1 Nancy needs to find a place to study that is quiet. She needs to find good resources for her research paper about Physics. 2 Nancy needs to find more unique resources for her research paper. 3
THEORY Navigation Multivariate Data Maps STUDY AREAS STUDY AREAS LOW CONVERSATION MEDIUM CONVERSATION HIGH CONVERSATION MEDIUM CONVERSATION LOW CONVERSATION HIGH CONVERSATION FLOOR 4 7 Administration Special Collections 6 Fine Arts / History FLOOR Business Science 5 Infoaction / Online Info & News ESCALATOR 4 Business Science 2 3 Literature / Social Sciences 2 Multilingual / Popular / Teen Library FLOOR 1 Multilingual Children’s Library Popular Reading ELEVATOR Teen Library Route highlighted step by step Icons correspond for each section in our app
THEORY Orientation Breadcrumbs Header RESOURCES search ARTS, ARCHITECTURE BIOGRAPHY & BUSINESS & EDUCATION & MUSIC HISTORY ECONOMICS Select Category Browse Resources Select Resource Go There! FICTION & KIDS & GENERAL REFERENCE LITERATURE TEENS LIFESTYLE & LANGUAGE & SCIENCE & SOCIETY & WELLNESS WRITING TECHNOLOGY CULTURE Select Floor Select Area Go There! Colored button for the page the Color-coding sections by the colors in our app user is on
THEORY Imageability Icons Signage Topics include Anatomy, Biology, Chemistry, Cognitive Science, Physics, Geography, etc. OK CANCEL Icons correspond for each section Physical signage of the book with corresponding icon in our app
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