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Studio Brief 01 - Wayfinding Development/Feedback Critique

During this session, we went into small groups of 6 to present our work that we did for wayfinding, I did my wayfinding based on my student hall, Sky Plaza. Here are the feedback from my peers in my group who examined my work:
  • Good - using colours of the building.
  • Consistent use of arrows.
  • More creative signage.
  • Maybe change the colour of the building.
  • Good ideas, agree truly with the whole playful, kids area.
  • More modern, mature colour scheme.
  • Possibly don't limit colour scheme too much, could make it look too dull.
  • Good research into existing colour scheme.
  • You have achieved your aim to make it look less childish and look more modern.
  • The concept of using the building colours is strong and colour coding works well.
  • Not sure on the type choice.
  • Good ideas but needs developing - good range of of mockups.
  • I agree that the colour scheme is very playful and I can understand you made it more sophisticated.
  • Shapes you've experimental with are nice, but I agree with everyone. Don't limit your colour palette became it'll end up to dull.
  • Looks like more of a clinical centre than a student accommodation for a student. 
Evaluation

Overall, most of my peers believed that the redesigning of my student halls, Sky Plaza were appropriate to the wayfinding brief. From looking back at the feedback from my peers has given to me. I have tried to follow their advice on how to make my wayfinding more modernised for students. As the current colour scheme is quite childilsh and looks like a children play area like Wacky Warehouse. I tried to make my wayfinding have a theme, like examining the colour of the building of Sky Plaza. However, when I produced this within my mock ups, my tutor pointed out that it could look very clinical rather than a student accommodation. Some of my peers suggested that I could use one of the current colours of the original colour scheme from the company 'Unite Students'.

Here are some of images at the bottom which demonstrates my development and mock ups: 













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