the signs are a lower cost example of how rethinking design can make existing infrastructure more useable. … Then again, it doesn’t mean you can’t have some fun with the old parking signs ...

Sylianteng's design is a visual calendar-styled series of bars, each bar representing one or more days with a unique parking schedule, and the side column dividing each day up into time blocks ...

The more signs there are, the more confusing that question gets. Designer Nikki Sylianteng is trying to fix the problem through visual design. You can see various iterations of her sign at her ...

Like most parking signs, New York City’s are text-based, packing too many rules into too few words. When the city commissioned a fancy design firm to overhaul its signs last year, the results ...

So she began thinking about how she might be able to solve this problem through design. She realized that with just a little more focus on usability, parking signs could actually be useful.

Parking signs in Michigan ... with “reserved” and change a stationary logo of a person in a wheelchair to a more active wheelchair user. “The new design helps cut down on the perception ...