Methodological Proposal of Signaling Project for a Federal University Hospital
Hospital signage, signage design, design methodology, wayfinding
This article presents a methodological proposal of signaling project for a federal university hospital. The methodological contribution is divided into three fundamental stages: planning (support network construction and realization of situational diagnosis), development (elaboration of signaling project, development of bidding process, validation of content and closure of manual of signaling and setting) and implementation (signaling project implementation and proposal evaluation by the hospital community). The method is innovative by adding to the proposal the construction of a support network, which includes training of operational staff from partnerships, strategies for involving management and the hospital community in the process, and opportunities for raising funds in the public sphere, which drastically reduces project costs to institutions. The proposal is presented in detail throughout the article and comes to support managers who wish to develop signaling projects and do not have the technical knowledge, staff or financial resources to execute it.