Wayfinding

Physical Environments
Non-instrument navigation on land and sea.
Wayfinding - article by Polynesian Voyaging Society
Traditional Navigation in the Western Pacific - exhibit
Wayfinding is Not Signage - article
Enriching Wayfinding Instructions with Local Landmarks - article
Wayfinding: People, Signs, and Architecture - book by Romedi Passini, Paul Arthur

Digital Environments
Take a left at the home page.
Design Guidelines for Landmarks to Support Navigation in Virtual Environments - article by Norman Vinson
Designing Navigable Information Spaces - thesis by Mark Foltz
Wayfinding in Large-Scale Digital Worlds - article by Rudy Darken
Rediscovering Wayfinding - article by Eric Reiss
Location, Path & Attribute Breadcrumbs - by Keith Instone
Shape and the Emergent Property of Genre in Evaluating Digital Documents - by A. Dillon, M. Vaughan

"I've found that wayfinding doesn't really apply to digital spaces, and in fact I think trying to apply spatial concepts to digital environments is harmful since digital is more about semantics."
- Victor Lombardi

"The notion of intertextuality problematizes the idea of a text having boundaries and questions the dichotomy of inside and outside. Where does a text begin and end? What is text and what is context? The boundaries of texts are permeable. Each text exists within a vast society of texts in various genres and media: no text is an island entire of itself."
- Daniel Chandler in Semiotics

"Research on reading suggests that the effective navigation of complex documents is a learned skill, whether the documents are primarily verbal or primarily visual. We learn to understand the structure of complex documents by relying on familiar visual and verbal features. Through practice in using a particular genre of document, we learn the conventions of that genre and of the media in which that genre is usually presented."
- Karen Schriver in Dynamics in Document Design