Real World Navigation Woes

January 9, 2003

[A very confusing navigation sign]

This is the sign that greets you when you step off the elevator (“lift” for our friends across the pond) at the hotel where I am currently staying.

On one level it is clear…. if you examine it closely you can figure out where your room is by looking at this sign. But on another level it isn’t very good at all…. Bad design. On the plus side, at least they have a clear navigation guide, as they would otherwise no doubt lose customers (and I do mean lose them, as they wander through the halls). But wow, just looking at that the first thing I want to do is find a way to organize it better.

Another note: definite sign I’m getting older: I looked at the the font size on the name tags and said “That’s just too small”… and to make matters worse they used a serif font of some kind, which makes it harder to read. Oh well…. at least they spelled my name right ;-)

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