Assignment 2: Concept Tourist Map Delft
So our goal is to design a map; a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads etc. (Jewell and Abate, 2001). Our target group are pedestrians; persons who are walking along a road or a developed area (Jewell and Abate, 2001). These people need to be supported in their decisions of way finding because they are new to the area, which they are about to explore. Part of the assignment was a list of limiting conditions. It was forbidden to use text excessively, the ‘Route line’ itself or arrows as indicators for direction was not allowed. Furthermore, the names ‘Museum route’ and ‘shopping route’ should not be used on the map; it should be referred to them as by route K and route P. There should not be a key for the symbols; they need to speak for themselves. At large, the decisions taken in order to make subtle but effective differences should be adapted from the theory in Colin Ware’s book ‘Visual Thinking for Design’ (2008).
This is our first draft for the concept of the tourist map of Delft. This picture will only show the shopping route edition. By showing 3D shopping icons which will decrease in size from the start, we try to create a route.
