Aligno won Red Dot Award: Design Concept 2017
Channel: Karthik P B
Date: 2017-11-06

The video shows a glimpse of Red Dot Design Concept Yearbook 2017/2018, Red Dot Design Museum and how Aligno is used.

Aligno is a multi-layered physical map which allows users to quickly search buildings/ locations and navigate easily. This map is of a college campus which was designed as part of student project. The campus area is approximately 0.6 sq.km. Faculty and students mostly walk in the campus.

The design features mentioned below set Aligno apart from the physical navigation systems available in the market.
1. Easy and quick to search locations that are alphabetically arranged on the circular
periphery of the map.
2. Progressive disclosure of information as users are exposed to only those directions that they
wish to commute to.
3. Additional information of the destination is introduced in the ‘HAS’ box.
4. The scale on the map is set to ‘1cm = approx.1 min by walk’. The horizontal and vertical
ruler around the map helps the user to roughly calculate the time required to walk down to a
destination.
5. Most of all, its fun and brings a smile to the user.

http://www.red-dot.sg/en/aligno/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/karthikpb

https://www.behance.net/karthikpb

Designers:
Karthik P B, student, Design Programme, IIT Kanpur
Prof.Koumudi Patil, HSS, IIT Kanpur

Special thanks: Asish Mohandas, Archit Kamath, Akshita Rastogi, Afifa, Ekta, Gautham T R, Mahesh Sreekumar Rajasree, Nilothpal, Pranay Baldev, Pranjal Prasoon, Sandeep Kumar, Shashank Arya, Sugam, Vimal.