Piet Westendorp

Westendorp, Piet, R. Wever and Paul Mijksenaar 2004 Presentation media for route instructions for pedestrians in urban environments Information Design Journal 12:1, pp. 5–18 | Article

GPS-based route-guidance systems are used for various types of transport, such as airplanes, boats, cars and motorbikes. Such systems have also been developed for pedestrians, focusing initially on hikers in rough terrain. Recently, some devices were developed for pedestrians in urban environments. read more

Westendorp, Piet and Karel van der Waarde 2003 Editorial: From avionics to aviation information architecture Information Design Journal 11:1, pp. 1–3 | Miscellaneous

Westendorp, Piet and Karel van der Waarde 2003 Editorial Information Design Journal 11:2/3, pp. 103–105 | Miscellaneous

Westendorp, Piet and Karel van der Waarde 2001 Editorial introduction Theme: Bertin; Conference: Vision +6, pp. 1–3 | Article

Westendorp, Piet and Karel van der Waarde 2001 Icons: Support or substitute? Theme: Pictograms, pp. 91–94 | Article

Westendorp, Piet 1987 De Gebruiksaanwijzing Bestaat Niet Communicatie in bedrijf en beroep, pp. 118–132 | Article

Various fields of research are valuable for the writer of user manuals: readability (formulas), ergonomics, cognitive psychology, psycholinguistics, instructional research and typography. Elements of these fields appear in 'How to write manuals books'. Yet these books do not answer the writer's… read more

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