Shortnotice is centered on text-based input and a fatigued interface, and as Barillas' team noted early on, an enticing user experience and visual interaction signage is critical.
As he points out, it's a slight to say that visual branding and signage are just design - there are many other important elements that separate good work from really great work.
In 2011, several neonatologists and particularly obstetricians suggested benefits of 'check-list approaches', and also visual reminders and signage (such as posters in drug rooms and the labour ward, and stamps or 'alerts' in the front of medical records): "… a few more visual reminders… you know, kind of 'Have you thought about?' … If it's in our face, we'll think about it.
One of the high points in Eskilson's book, however, is the attention paid to the "signage and visual identity" of the London transport system and to Harry C. Beck's innovative map (1931-33) of the London Underground.
The use of signage increases visual attention and sale as well, yet only for the product that the label addressed, implying a cannibalization effect.
The work shows late at night so a lot of the visual action is the signage, it's a totally different feeling from Times Square during the day.
But a photographic series that explicitly models and parodies mid-20th century film with as much virtuoso aplomb as the Untitled Films Stills has to be richly informed by a diversely specialized lexicon of visual techniques and pictorial signage that is the result of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of artists and skilled laborers within the film industry, most of whom go unrecognized.
These more dramatically negative qualities can be experienced in a squalid urban space, deafening noise, cluttered billboard with gaudy signage and sordid visual images, stench from a nearby factory, and the like.
Dennis' neurological medium transcends the language of art, by which I mean it extends beyond the articulated signage employed with visual marks, objects, or phonetics to the experience they are intended to reference.
