Visitor Experience Design
Viewers Are Tired: How to Design Exhibitions for the Contemporary Audience
How to create art exhibitions that engage viewers while considering their limitations? The key lies in flexibility—ranging from how the exhibition space is arranged to incorporating multisensory experiences and new approaches to educational communication. This article draws inspiration from El Lissitzky’s critique of museums and the concept of the distributed museum, exploring ways to support viewer focus and build an inclusive institution for presenting art.
The Visitor’s Journey: How Gallery Interiors Shape the Art Exhibition Experience
The evolution of exhibition spaces has transformed galleries into narrative mediums, presenting new challenges for designers and curators alike. In this article, we explore how design thinking tools and user experience (UX)-inspired approaches aid in creating engaging and comprehensible exhibition narratives. We consider how to enhance the educational value of exhibitions while empathetically reducing viewers’ cognitive effort through diverse arrangements and varying degrees of descriptive complexity.