Across the Board: A Ghent Blog

The more you study the purpose and design of both wayfinding and patient boards, the more you begin to see the similarities between how patients interact with them.

Whether you use your dry erase board for brainstorming, note-taking, random doodles, or office announcements, you’re likely using it on a daily basis. With this amount of use, it’s not long before you realize the importance of caring for, cleaning, and maintaining your board.

West Virginia University Hospital approached VividBoard in 2015 with a small order for two (large) whiteboards that were to be placed in their nurses’ stations.

Your whiteboards should help with communication, not hinder it. The experts at VividBoard help you create an incredible communication board by focusing on three key elements of your design.

Color plays a vital role in design that goes far beyond aesthetics. Color tends to shape the way we feel in any given environment, influencing our emotions and invoking responses that can be essential or detrimental to a workspace.

You don’t have to be a professional designer or an expert in patient/provider communication to build your own custom whiteboards. Follow this easy, step-by-step guide.

Now that there’s so much product information online, firms have shifted the way they handle specs and samples. Choosing between which samples to store in-house, and which to store digitally has been an ongoing battle since the advent of the internet—not to mention managing the varying information among separate teams.

As a designer, it’s no secret that people make purchasing decisions for all sorts of reasons. Whether it’s a planned decision or an impulsive one, there’s an important role that in-store samples play during the decision process.

When it comes to lesson plans and learning environment aesthetics, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a more meaningful use of a teacher’s time (aside from interacting with students directly).