The user experience is integral when building new technology products and websites. It serves as a way to simplify and streamline a user’s digital journey from point A to point B. User experience – or UX, as you may know it – is all about a user’s emotions and attitudes towards a product. It takes into account the accessibility, desirability, and value of a product, system, or service. At Placemarque,
To varying degrees, we’re all familiar with a need for accessibility in physical spaces. Whether it’s lifts and ramps in a train station or braille room numbers outside doors. But these are only a very minor look into what true accessibility could – and should – look like. True accessibility is about designing spaces for anyone to navigate and experience. Finding solutions for visual, mobility, hearing, and cognitive impairments across
One of the sessions at Built Environment Network’s Greater Manchester Development Conference explores inward investment: encouraging people to spend money in a location. This is a frequent objective for Placemarque when designing a wayfinding strategy. Good wayfinding encourages people to stay a little longer or walk a little further in order to spend their time and money in a different space, perhaps, in a different way. At the conference our
