Wayfinding expert, strategy and design consultant. Interested in humans, ML & AI.
Amsterdam
Joined November 2008
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We used Gemini 3.1 Pro to build a realistic city planner app. 🏙️
Watch how the model tackles complex terrain, maps out infrastructure, and simulates traffic to generate a high-quality visualization.
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A critical gap in modern AI isn't language or vision. It's spatial grammar. And it reveals a fundamental data bottleneck.
We built MapTrace, a fully automated, generative AI pipeline (models act as creators/critics) to generate 2M high-quality map-path pairs. The result: Fine-tuning on this synthetic data lowered path-tracing errors and boosted the success rate by +6.4 points for Gemini 2.5 Flash on real-world maps.
ALT Example Paths generated by the proposed pipeline. We observed that the generated images tend to render text incorrectly however we mostly focus on path qualities in this work. We believe that with improvements in image generation models, these artifacts can be easily suppressed in future work.
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Watch live here:
youtube.com/watch?v=61VpIEpd…
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Wayfinding or waylosing? Watch Why People Get Lost in Buildings with @DrColetteJeff now at youtube.com/watch?utm_campai… #Wayfinding #Waylosing #SpatialOrientation #CognitiveNavigation
Sander Baumann retweeted
We've wrapped up our presale, and folks, what a ride it's been! As we take a breather and soak it all in. But let's take a moment to look back at our roadmap and reflect on all that we've accomplished so far:
Q1
✔️Platform Launch: Blastup.io, App.blastup.io
✔️Community building
✔️Community Incentives program
✔️Deploy & Audit BlastUP token
Q2
✔️Buy/Swap/Bridge
✔️Blastboxes
✔️IDO Farming
💌 We've come a long way, and we're grateful for your unwavering support every step of the journey! Stay tuned for more updates and exciting developments ahead. Let's continue this journey together!
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Find out about the latest thinking on inclusive design for wayfinding information at our 18 April afternoon symposium @stbridelibrary. Info / to book: bit.ly/SDS_Apr24
Tkts cost £25
#inclusivedesign #wayfinding #navigation #signs #accessibility #placemaking #booklaunch
ALT Image for our 18 April '24 afternoon symposium, organised by SDS and SEGD London Chapter, and sponsored by Modulex and Rivermeade (logos included)
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The new edition Sign Design Guide+ will be published this month. We're taking pre-orders. Invoices will be raised from this week with a view to sending out copies from w/c 26.02.24: bit.ly/SDS_News2
#SignDesignGuide2 #book #inclusivedesign #signs #wayfinding #publications
ALT Front cover of the new edition Sign Design Guide+ due to be published in late February '24.
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The 2023 @SDS_uk event programme culminated in @sethalow's thought-provoking talk on public space.
To access this or any of our previous '23 event recordings, email: [email protected]
Access free to members otherwise £15 per event
#CPD #sdsTalks #placemaking
ALT Composite image showing four photos reflecting the topics covered in our 2023 seminar programme, including: (top left and clockwise) why public space matters; transport information design & intuitive wayfinding; sustainable design; and complexity, dialogue, and otherness in wayfinding design
Sander Baumann retweeted
Dep. Ambassador Mr. Nabil Taouati kicks off 🇳🇱 #digital #healthcare mission with Dep. Minister of Health of #SaudiArabia for digital transformation H.E. Mr. Abdullah Al- Issa followed by a visit to Seha Virtual Hospital, a 🇸🇦flagship of digital health transformation #Vision2030
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Thank you, your excellency, and your colleagues for hosting 🇳🇱 #digital #healthcare mission. We are looking forward to strengthening our cooperation #healthcare #innovation
استقبل المدير التنفيذي للتخطيط الاستراتيجي في #المدينة_الطبية في جامعة الملك سعود نائب السفير الهولندي لدى المملكة أ.نبيل طعواتي وممثلين لعدد من الشركات الهولندية المتخصصة بالحلول التقنية المتطورة في المجال الصحي، وخدمات الرعاية الصحية، والتعليمية الطبية، بحضور عدد من المديرين التنفيذيين، والطبيين ومسئولي المدينة الطبية.
Sander Baumann retweeted
استقبل المدير التنفيذي للتخطيط الاستراتيجي في #المدينة_الطبية في جامعة الملك سعود نائب السفير الهولندي لدى المملكة أ.نبيل طعواتي وممثلين لعدد من الشركات الهولندية المتخصصة بالحلول التقنية المتطورة في المجال الصحي، وخدمات الرعاية الصحية، والتعليمية الطبية، بحضور عدد من المديرين التنفيذيين، والطبيين ومسئولي المدينة الطبية.
Sander Baumann retweeted
Booking now for our 16 November (1pm GMT) online talk by Jaap Knevel, ' Other ways: complexity, dialogue and otherness in wayfinding design': bit.ly/SDS_Nov23
Tkts free to paid up @SDS_uk members, otherwise £15 each
#wayfinding #sdsTalks #navigation #design #signs
ALT Wayfinding signage (showing ahead arrows and a message in different languages
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Check out current wayfinding designer vacancies from @sds_uk members: @airdesignltd @HelloGeniusloci @Steer_Group on our website: bit.ly/SDS_Jobs2
#hiring #jobs2023 #JobsUK #JobsUAE #recruitment #wayfinding #placemaking #signdesign #informationdesign #navigation #signs
Sander Baumann retweeted
During our 50th Anniversary Conference Experience, we proudly debuted our new visual identity, crafted by @pentagram. Visit segd.org/projects/segds-new-… for a closer look at our updated visual identity and to learn more about the process behind Pentagram’s design.
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Episode 1 of the Applied+Disegno Podcast ‘Re-routing the City’ is now available
appliedinformation.group/ins…