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Wayshowing : basic & interactive

by Per Mollerup

"This is the completely renewed edition of the standard reference book Wayshowing. Fully updated with digital signage systems and has much more tool-oriented, practical content.

Accession 9789063693237 ISBN 9789063693237 Publisher BIS Publishers

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1. **Wayfinding & Human Spatial Navigation**
The book's central premise is that people navigate space through active problem-solving — searching, deciding, and moving — using nine distinct strategies including route following, map reading, inference, and social navigation. Mollerup reframes the designer's role not as solving the navigation problem, but as facilitating the user's own solution.

Connect to books about: cognitive mapping, environmental psychology, spatial cognition, urban navigation.

2. **Environmental & Architectural Signage Design**
Mollerup examines how signs function within the built environment — covering typography, colour, size, format, mounting, placement, and pictograms — and applies these principles to large-scale settings such as airports, hospitals, railway stations, museums, and cities.

Connect to books about: environmental graphic design, architectural communication, public space design, exhibition design.

3. **Semiotics & Communication Theory**
The book draws on semiotics to explore how signs carry meaning, discussing the structural relationship between signifier and signified, and how non-signs can act as signs. Wayshowing is framed as a communicative act, analogous to writing (as opposed to reading) or speaking (as opposed to hearing).

Connect to books about: semiotics, visual communication theory, linguistics, symbolic systems.

4. **User-Centred & Inclusive Design**
Mollerup addresses the needs of diverse users, including a dedicated discussion on signposting for people with impaired vision, and emphasises that good wayshowing must be built around an understanding of how people actually behave and navigate.

Connect to books about: universal design, accessibility, human-centred design, disability and the built environment.

5. **Digital & Interactive Wayfinding**
The updated edition substantially extends its scope to digital signage and interactive systems, exploring how digital tools can work within a wayshowing scheme alongside traditional print-based solutions, reflecting the growing role of technology in spatial orientation.

Connect to books about: UX/UI design, interactive media, digital signage, smart cities.

6. **Information Design & Visual Clarity**
Underlying the book is a commitment to simplicity, legibility, and the elimination of noise — Mollerup advocates for a balance between simplicity and redundancy, and argues that comprehensible structures are essential to effective communication in space.

Connect to books about: information design, data visualisation, graphic design principles, Edward Tufte-style clarity.

7. **Cognitive Decision-Making & Behavioural Psychology**
Wayfinding is treated as a spatial problem-solving process driven by rational decision-making. The book analyses how users read environmental cues, form mental models, and execute navigational choices — linking design directly to human cognition and behaviour.

Connect to books about: decision-making, cognitive psychology, mental models, behavioural design.

8. **Urban Planning & Public Infrastructure**
The practices section examines real-world signage systems across cities, transport networks, cultural institutions, and public spaces, situating wayshowing within the broader discipline of how urban environments are organised and made legible to their inhabitants.

Connect to books about: urban design, city planning, transit design, Kevin Lynch's image of the city, placemaking.

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