| Maps have playing a significant role in our history, which have made a great contribution to the progress of human’s life. With the coming of the informatization, there is a greater big-data period waiting for us. Recently, traditional hand-drawing maps and navigation tools, such as chart and compass, are getting rather harder to meet our need of efficient guidance. Since mobile information technology set a foot on the stage of history, there will be no deny that digital navigation is going to be a trend. For the sake of the enhancement of users’ using efficiency of maps, article combines wayfinding design, map design and information design, in the perspective of interact art of digital media art, and attempt to demonstrate a new thought of maps from the eyesight of newly developed digital art.Modern digital media art is the fusion of ideal of art design and advanced digital information technology which provides a new horizon for traditional art and design. On the aspect of navigating efficiency, old maps have kneeled in front of modern digital maps. Whereas, with the limitation of technology, modern tools have their own demerits such as unstable locating accuracy, network dependence, lifting information deployment. It is worthy to be mentioned that these problems occur frequently in the indoor room. In the field of interior design, due to users’ different abilities of recognizing icons and directions in the project, the performance of a wayfinding system would differ as for different individuals. We focus on the settlement of issues above, then take action with the ideal of interactive maps and combine advantages of traditional maps, information design, wayfinding design and modern digital technology. So that, we are capable to figure out the conclusion which are benefit for the method of this sort of maps. As a consequence, we are able to review the way we make maps in background of big-data age.By analyzing some fundamental knowledge of interactive maps, with some practical projects, we can summarize the principle and method of interactive maps. At last, a concept work of mine will be taken as an example to illustrate further for the theory. |
