Silver A' Design Award in Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Goes to Totetsu Training Institute Wayfinding System by Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc.

Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc. recognized for interface, interaction and user experience design by the international grand jury of the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition

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COMO, Italy, April 22, 2022 /DesignNewswire/ A' Design Award & Competition has announced that Totetsu Training Institute Wayfinding System by Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc., designed for Totetsu Kogyo Co., Ltd., has been granted the Silver A' Design Award in the Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design category. The result belongs to the 2021 - 2022 A' Design Award & Competition and was determined through blind peer review by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members, who evaluated anonymized entries against predetermined criteria.

What the Silver A' Design Award Means

The Silver A' Design Award celebrates top-tier designs that embody excellence and innovation. This award acknowledges creations that are not only aesthetically pleasing but also highly functional, reflecting the designer's deep understanding and skill. Silver A' Design Award recipients are recognized for their contribution to raising industry standards and advancing the practice of design. Their work often incorporates original innovations and elicits a strong emotional response, making a notable impact on the improvement of everyday life.

Regarding Totetsu Training Institute Wayfinding System

The client, founded at the request of the former Ministry of Railways to maintain and reinforce Japan’s rail system, is a general construction company with far-reaching expertise in the field of rail-related construction. The designer Takuya Wakizaki, the founder of MOTIVE Inc., created a wayfinding system for the institute, which the client built to develop human resources. For the design motif, the designer used rail lines-the core identity of the client. Through the design, the designer strove to create a space that would help trainees feel a sense of pride in their work.

About Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc.

MOTIVE Inc.'s main design field is orientation design = environmental information design. As the morning sun climbs, you can find the east direction. If you smell the tide, you can feel the sea is near. When you see the light ahead of the tunnel, you can find the exit. MOTIVE Inc. believes that humans have the ability to adapt and act in the environment by receiving the "stimulus = information" sent by the environment. How do the various "Stimulus = Information" in the world act on the brain, mind, and body to become the "motive" in which people adapt to their environment and act? What is the difference between information that leads to "motive" and information that does not?

Award Record

This recognition makes Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc. a winner of 1 A' Design Award.

About the A' Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design Award

The A' Interface Design Award is an international design competition recognizing good user interface designs by the best UI/UX designers worldwide. It is organized within the A' Design Award & Competition and is open to interface designers, interaction designers, user experience designers and digital product designers from all countries. Typical entries include websites, mobile applications, software interfaces, game interfaces, wearable interfaces and virtual reality interfaces. The awarded interface designs are published at https://dezigners.org/design-category/interface

About A' Design Award & Competition

Organized annually since 2008, A' Design Award & Competition is an international, juried design accolade. The competition is open to entries from all countries. The philanthropic mission of the A' Design Award is to advance society through good design, by recognizing and promoting superior products, projects and services that benefit society, and by creating a global awareness and appreciation for good design practices and principles. Nominations are peer reviewed and evaluated anonymously by an international grand jury panel of established academics, design professionals and press members against predetermined criteria such as functionality, ergonomics, engineering, presentation, innovation, usability, sustainability and technology, with score normalization applied to remove biases. Awards are conferred at Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Iron levels. Eligible laureates receive the A' Design Prize, which includes the award trophy, the certificate of design excellence, the hardcover yearbook, a lifetime license to use the A' Design Award winner logo, exhibition of awarded works, an invitation to the gala night and award ceremony in Italy, inclusion in the World Design Rankings and Designer Rankings, and public relations and publicity services. Registration, uploading a work and receiving a preliminary score are free of charge, and Professional and Digital Edition laureates are not contractually obliged to pay further fees to claim the A' Design Prize. More information is available at https://competition.adesignaward.com

Press Resources

Winner Page: https://dezigners.org/134634
A' Design Award Page: https://competition.adesignaward.com/134634
Media Showcase: https://www.designnewsroom.com/!134634
Laureate Profile: https://dezigners.org/d/324295
Further Information from the Laureate: http://www.motive.tokyo

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Fact Sheet

The Work

Project: Totetsu Training Institute Wayfinding System
Function: Wayfinding System
Category: Interface, Interaction and User Experience Design
Discipline: Communication Design
Industry: Software
Colors: Silver, Light Gray, Dark Gray, Cadet Blue and Light Steel Blue
Images: 5
Client: Totetsu Kogyo Co., Ltd.

The Recognition

Laureate: Takuya Wakizaki - Motive Inc.
Country: Japan
Recognition: Silver A' Design Award
Edition: 2021 - 2022
Design ID: #134634

Credits

Team: Architect - Totetsu Kogyo Co., Ltd. and Construction - Totetsu Kogyo Co., Ltd.
Image Credits: All Images: Photographer Takeshi Shinto, 2021

Design Details

Unique Properties: Due to the characteristics of the space, some of the rooms in the facility are in blind areas. The rail-line design marks flow lines to those rooms, offering affordances for spatial movement. In addition, the design team used rail scrap for the facility’s name sign and portions of the stairs to capture the company's personality with creative aesthetic accents.
Inspiration: Totetsu Kogyo Co., Ltd., founded at the request of the former Ministry of Railways to maintain and reinforce Japan’s rail system, is a general construction company with far-reaching expertise in the field of rail-related construction. For the design motif, the design team used rail lines-the core identity of Totetsu Kogyo, which continues to thrive in the rail sector.
Research: You can find animals' whereabouts, such as foxes, by following the footprints left on the snow-covered ground. Many people will have had the experience of walking across the pedestrian crossing only on the white line as a child. If multiple shapes are drawn on the ground, Hopscotch will start. These unknowingly acquired behavioural habits, which are difficult to prove chemically, can be a hint for designing a wayfinding system. The marks on the floor are great for informing, inducing, and controlling behaviour.
Challenge: Due to the characteristics of the space, some of the rooms in the facility are in blind areas. The rail-line design marks flow lines to those rooms, offering affordances for spatial movement. In other words, the rail-line design becomes a flow line. This line had to run through the building uninterrupted, and safety had to be taken to prevent users from stumbling. Since the rail lines were constructed by connecting the divided parts, severe dimensional accuracy is required. The rail lines' curves, intersections, branches, etc., were very difficult construction.
Realization and Technology: Facility’s name sign - Used rail scrap Rail line-1 - Steel Rail line-2 - PVC flooring Typography - Floor marking film
Operation and Interaction: Rooms in blind areas or rooms that need to be accessed through narrow corridors are less likely to be recognized by users. With the rail-line design, users can see a destination in blind areas or beyond narrow corridors and change the inactive space into an active one.
Project Duration and Location: The project started in June 2019. The project finished in December 2021. Located in Ibaraki, JAPAN.
Specifications: Facility’s name sign - H174 x W2690 Rail line width - 60mm
Keywords: Wayfinding, Signage, Orientation Design, Environmental Design, Graphic