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Designing and building easily navigable and memorable environments is the one of the main roles of interior designers. Wayfinding is defined as the ability to navigate through a space without feeling lost. Interior designers are responsible for incorporating principles of the wayfinding in the built environment to improve occupants’ experience. The main purpose of this paper are; 1) to write overview of wayfinding implications related to interior design and architecture that improves building users’ navigation in the built environment, 2) to employ the wayfinding elements to an institution building. The aim of this project to help new students and visitors reach their destinations easily without being lost. A qualitative research analysis, thematic approach, is used to review credible scholarly journal articles and books with the relation of occupants’ behavior and wayfinding elements. Also, a case study is conducted in an institution building to find out wayfinding issues and redesigned the building through employing an evidence-based design approach. This paper explored a verity of techniques that interior designers and architects should use when designing new buildings.
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