The effect of environmental graphic design elements used in hospital spaces with experience design

Increasing awareness of the design understanding that can meet the social and psychological needs of users in healthcare spaces is the focus of research on the place- patient / employee psychology. While the patient-centered healthcare space designs with therapeutic and supportive approach that can provide trust and satisfaction can form the starting point of study, "Design of Experience" within the intersection of design disciplines directs the users to work in terms of understanding the spatial experience of the environment. However, "environmental graphic design" elements in hospitals' internal spaces are confronted as factors that shape the criteria such as orientation, information and sense of place generated by patients' experience of space. On the other hand, the examination of the experience design of hospitals and the effects of environmental graphic design on the users constitutes the focus of the thesis because of the inadequate work done in the area of environmental graphic design and space-related experience design. In this context, the first part of the study examined the relationship and theories between experience design and environmental graphic design in hospital spaces. In the second chapter, environmental graphic design elements in health spaces; photography, illustration, typography and pictograms as discussed under separate headings, the effects of space users to experience were investigated. In addition, photos from local hospitals, typography, illustration and design criteria that influence the relationship pictogram of environmental graphic design elements considered in the sub-heading local health have been identified. In the third and fourth chapters, the current environmental graphic design practices in hospitals were examined and the function of environmental graphic design elements in these spaces were determined. In this respect, research spaces with sufficient visual elements that can contribute to the study were identified and the observations made in these hospitals before the questionnaire were explained in the fifth chapter. In the last chapter patients, medical staff and doctors with environmental graphic design elements such as questionnaires administered to groups of users; information about the effects of relaxation, orientation, institutional perception, aesthetics, space belonging and safety measures on the user's experience of space has been obtained and evaluated. In this study, the effects on the user 's perception of environmental graphic design elements in health spaces were investigated and the effects of the design criteria which play a role in determining the environmental graphic design elements which are confronted in the hospital spaces which are the active interaction area, have been determined. As a result of the study, it has been aimed that environmental graphic design elements in interior design affects the user's sense of space and space efficiency, and that the solutions that will be presented through an experience design covering both areas contribute to the context of environmental graphic design in health spaces.