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search      Wayfinding is the traditional navigation methods
used by indigenous peoples of Polynesia.[1]  Urban
planning[edit]  In the 1960s, the American urban planner and
theorist Kevin A. Lynch introduced the term wayfinding as it is
now commonly used.  In more modern times, wayfinding has been
used in the context of architecture to refer to the user
experience of orientation and choosing a path within the built
environment, and it also refers to the set of architectural
and/or design elements that aid orientation. The urban planner
Kevin A. Lynch borrowed the term for his 1960 book The Image of
the City, where he defined wayfinding as “a consistent use and
organization of definite sensory cues from the external
environment”. One comprehensive example is the Pittsburgh
Wayfinder System.  In 1984 environmental psychologist Romedi
Passini published the full-length "Wayfinding in
Architecture"[citation needed] and expanded the concept to
include signa