Mina Seftonlearning log
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Learning log · term one
Two entries a week: Monday for the plan, Wednesday after crit. Every entry ends with what I learned and what I would change.
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Week 03
wayfinding critiquepin two, not one
I pinned up the Route 7 draft and the room went quiet in the wrong way. Ines asked me to point to “you are here” and I couldn’t find it fast. Twelve arrows, no anchor.
A map needs one loud thing, and it should be the reader’s own position.
I would pin up two versions, not one. A single draft invites polite comments; two invite a choice.
Week 03
wayfinding researchsit at the back next
Forty minutes, twenty-two stops. I wrote down every time someone leaned forward to read the stop display. Most of them were looking for a landmark, not a street name.
People navigate by things they can see: the clock tower, the big Co-op, the bridge.
I sat at the front. Sitting at the back would have shown me who can’t see the display at all.
Week 02
type drawingtest under evening light
I printed the same label at six sizes and taped them to the library shelves. Then I stood at the door with a tape measure and asked six people to read them out.
Weight matters more than size past about a metre. A heavier 28 pt beat a light 36 pt every time.
I only tested in daylight. The library’s evening lighting is yellow and dim and probably changes the answer.
Week 02
type researchlowercase!
Tracing letters from old station signs in the college archive. Slow, quiet, and better than any video about letter spacing.
Good sign lettering has generous gaps inside the letters, not just between them.
I traced only capitals. Lowercase is what people actually read quickly, so trace that next.
Week 01
drawing critiquelisten first
Five of us pinned up our memory maps. Mine had the canal in the wrong place entirely. Nobody laughed; they all had something similar.
Everyone’s memory map is distorted the same way: the parts we walk slowly get bigger.
I’d ask people to talk me through their maps before I explained mine.
Week 01
drawing wayfindingred door = landmark
Day one of the brief: draw the route you take every day without looking at a map. Mine took eleven minutes and had four landmarks and zero street names.
I don’t know the names of the streets I use every day. I know the bakery, the bridge and the red door.
I would draw it twice, morning and evening, to see what changes when I’m tired.
Week 04 lands Monday