Summary of Wayfinding Project

When beginning our wayfinding project we wanted to choose a situation that needed improvement. We realized that there are many different groups of people driving through campus trying to find the Kansas Union; whether they are incoming freshman, visiting parents, transfer students, etc. We decided to find the most direct driving route from 15th & Iowa to the Kansas Union. Originally we navigated all the way through the inside of the Union to the main floor, however that created too many extra nodes and problems. Thus, we simplified our situation to go straight from 15th & Iowa to the Union parking lot. In order to test our experiment we had classmates fill out which route they would take on a map. After finding the most common route, we needed to begin creating signs to guide the individuals along the way. We took elements like stronger chroma, color, visibility, and size into account when perfecting our signs. Once our final prototypes were finished we placed them at distinct locations along the route. Kansas University puts up temporary signs over the summer to help students coming for orientation; however we decided these signs would benefit society best if they were permanently installed.