Posts by Tania Vitiuk
Introducing SignAgent Build
About Learn how SignAgent Build bridges the gap between sign designers, managers, sign builders, and installers. During this session, Alex Keen (Director of Customer Success, SignAgent) demonstrates how sign designers and managers can now place orders and track production and installation progress within the SignAgent platform. He also showcases how sign fabricators and installers can…
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Read MoreIntroducing SignAgent Build
We’ve just launched SignAgent Build. Build offers sign designers and managers the ability to change signs to an order state and issue requests for quotes to sign builders (and installers). With Build, sign builders and (installers) can provide fast and accurate quotes. A customizable kanban guides the production process and gives designers and managers insight…
Read More9. The Process: How Wayfinding Projects Come Together
A guest contribution by Patrick Eley and Alan Stevenson. No part of the place creation process happens in isolation and wayfinding, an extremely collaborative practice, is no different. To understand what goes into a typical wayfinding project, it helps to understand the many people involved in its success. In the final chapter of Straight Forward we…
Read More8. The Future: A Digital Work in Progress
A guest contribution by Patrick Eley and Alan Stevenson. The smartphone in your pocket or the Sat Nav in your car has replaced the need to unfold those enormous paper sheets of yore. Digital maps have made our world feel smaller and infinitely easier to explore. And yet, they’re far from perfect! For its one…
Read More7. Cartography: How Maps Help Us Understand Place
A guest contribution by Patrick Eley and Alan Stevenson. One of the most common side effects of working in wayfinding is being really, really into maps! One of the key challenges of reading a map, especially if you come from a generation that remembers being reliant on paper maps — is how to look at…
Read More6. Accessibility: Wayfinding for Everyone
A guest contribution by Patrick Eley and Alan Stevenson. What’s the point of a wayfinding system if not everyone can use it? People need to do more than just read a sign, they need to understand it – instantly. An accessible wayfinding system accommodates the reality that everyone has different ways of taking in information and…
Read More5. Longevity: Wayfinding That Lasts
A guest contribution by Patrick Eley and Alan Stevenson. Good wayfinding systems shouldn’t come with an expiration date. Instead, they should be resilient to the test of time, adapting and readapting to withstand anything from the elements to wear and tear to changes in the building’s layout or visitor needs. A wayfinding system does this…
Read More4. The Golden Rules: Clear, Coherent and Consistent
A guest contribution by Patrick Eley and Alan Stevenson. The deeper you get into the art of wayfinding, the more hats you need to wear. You need to be adept at understanding graphic design, industrial design, engineering, behavioural science, and architecture. You also need a good dose of common sense! So in the face of…
Read More3. Strategy: How to Put the Right Sign in the Right Place
A guest contribution by Patrick Eley and Alan Stevenson. When you’re devising a wayfinding scheme, it’s the strategic framework upfront that plays the most crucial role of all: putting the right sign in the right place. After all, locating signs isn’t as simple as plotting them, installing them and assuming they’ll do their job. To…
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