Directional Sense: How to Find Your Way Around

Were you born with no sense of direction? Does the mere thought of navigating twisting hospital corridors, deciphering cryptic expressway signs, or fumbling with cumbersome maps fill your heart with dread? If so, you need this trusty guidebook, which explains that finding your way around is a learnable skill, not a mysterious instinct you're doomed to live without. A lighthearted introduction to the ins and outs of wayfinding, it provides step-by-step guides to follow signs, reading maps, recognizing landmarks, using GPS devices, and more. Along with anecdotes describing how everyone gets lost at times, and photos showing how being turned around is not always your fault, Directional Sense offers a wealth of practical advice to help you confidently get from here to there...and back."Everyone who has ever been late for an appointment, missed a flight, or stood up a date because they lost their way will find both solace and instruction in this terrific book. It's chock full of fas

Janet R. Carpman, PhD and Myron A. Grant, MLA are wayfinding experts who have worked on hundreds of wayfinding analysis, planning, and design projects in large, complex public facilities. Believing that designed environments and their wayfinding systems should respond to the needs and preferences of the people who use them, Carpman and Grant have involved thousands of users in their projects over the past 30+ years. They are partners in Carpman Grant Associates, Wayfinding Consultants, Ann Arbor, MI, (wayfinding.com) and award-winning authors of Directional Sense: How to Find Your Way Around (directionalsense.com) and Design that Cares: Planning Health Facilities for Patients and Visitors.