Field Notes
Wall maps versus slide packs for the same path
Some audiences need a corridor wall; others need six slides. The path is the same — the reading distance is not.
A Path Atlas that works beside a loading bay may fail in a boardroom, and the reverse is also true. Corridor readers stand three meters away and need oversized gateway labels. Directors sit two meters from a projector and need a sequence: question, break point, decision.
We often deliver both from the same tracing work: a wall PDF tiled for A0 printing, and a shortened slide set that keeps only the contested handoffs. The tracing cost is shared; the layout labor is not. Ask for both only when both audiences will actually use them — unused wall maps become decoration faster than unused slides become forgotten files.