Parking signs can be an absolute nightmare to understand. Imagine if you had to read a complex parking sign to figure out if you can park there, but with the pressure of having multiple cars behind you as well. I worked with five others in order to offer potential redesigns to alleviate this issue.
First, we found an image of a complex parking sign, and then created tasks based on that sign to ask our interviewees (e.g. look at this sign for 10 seconds and tell me if you can park at Wednesday at 8pm). From the interviews, we discerned the following issues: participants were generally frustrated by the dense text and clutter across multiple signs, responses that took less time were more likely to be incorrect, and some participants did not know the meaning of green and red on the signs.
These issues are important because they can all affect a certain driver in a real life situation. The following is a prototype of our redesign in an attempt to alleviate these issues. First, it is important to condense the information onto one sign. Next, the usage of well known symbols such as the "P" symbol associated with colors implies meaning. Finally, compared to the original parking sign, it should take someone less time to find out the necessary information with our redesign.
The original parking sign we based our redesign off of
Our redesign prototype
