Comments on: Rethinking the Library Experience http://www.thisplaceis.com/archives/23 raising awareness of people-centered place design Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:41:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Mickey McManus http://www.thisplaceis.com/archives/23#comment-9 Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:12:47 +0000 http://www.thisplaceis.com/archives/23#comment-9 Thanks for the mention regarding this project. It was a fun and frustrating experience. We learned quite a bit and the librarians and leaders of the CLP have insights that many public institutions should grok. For a not too bad NPR broadcast about this project you can go here (its about a little more than halfway through the program)... http://www.smartcityradio.com/smartcityradio/past_shows.cfm?showsmartcityID=298&PageNum_getsmartshows=1 rant? I noticed that one of your other commenters noted the seattle library... please someone do a user study of that one... xeroxed signs taped to the wall telling you how to get down using the back stairwell when you feel trapped and other signs printed from desktop publishing tools pointing to librarians... an apparent second thought... otherwise a nice piece of architecture for architects and graphic design for graphic designers. If you want to make an impact with architects my sense is that they have to start learning about 2 things... information architecture (that middle layer between the raw "system" of the place and the user "interface(s)" represented by the physical/computational/human touchpoints... and maybe actually learning a bit of the humbling stuff that comes from watching users actually use a space to get to a goal. Thanks for the mention regarding this project. It was a fun and frustrating experience. We learned quite a bit and the librarians and leaders of the CLP have insights that many public institutions should grok.

For a not too bad NPR broadcast about this project you can go here (its about a little more than halfway through the program)…
http://www.smartcityradio.com/smartcityradio/past_shows.cfm?showsmartcityID=298&PageNum_getsmartshows=1

rant?
I noticed that one of your other commenters noted the seattle library… please someone do a user study of that one… xeroxed signs taped to the wall telling you how to get down using the back stairwell when you feel trapped and other signs printed from desktop publishing tools pointing to librarians… an apparent second thought… otherwise a nice piece of architecture for architects and graphic design for graphic designers.

If you want to make an impact with architects my sense is that they have to start learning about 2 things… information architecture (that middle layer between the raw “system” of the place and the user “interface(s)” represented by the physical/computational/human touchpoints… and maybe actually learning a bit of the humbling stuff that comes from watching users actually use a space to get to a goal.

]]> by: darren http://www.thisplaceis.com/archives/23#comment-4 Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:55:53 +0000 http://www.thisplaceis.com/archives/23#comment-4 check out the seattle pubilc library by perhaps the greatest present day academic and architect rem koolhaas...he also teamed with bruce mau to work on the signage and overall environment design check out the seattle pubilc library by perhaps the greatest present day academic and architect rem koolhaas…he also teamed with bruce mau to work on the signage and overall environment design

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