Excellent. Do let me know if you manage it; I got exhausted and gave up..
(The door has now been fixed: since you don't need anything more than a flat surface to open a door marked ‘push’, the bars have simply been removed.)
This is one of the little things that irks me. Brains process physical-visual-spatial information much faster than written information; therefore, if I see a door with a handle / raised bar on it, I think "must be a pull door", and pull it. It's normally only while failing to do this that I finish reading the sign that says "push".. Grr..
I'm not blaming any of these designers, per se, for failing to anticipate a particular design flaw. Each of the flaws I've described above is something I think one could reasonably be forgiven for not having foreseen, the first time. It's only because I can't believe it was the first time in every case that I get angry about it. [..]
Yes. Yes yes yes. You seem to have raised a lot of the thoughts that have been bugging me, consciously or not, for years. I started noticing them in the IT world, but when you "get your eye in", you can spot them everywhere.
Have you ever read Christopher Alexander (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander)'s The Timeless Way of Building (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Timeless_Way_of_Building) (@amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195024028/))? It's the book that's supposed to have inspired the GoF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_four) to write Design Patterns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns). It seems to touch on a lot of these issues on the architectural domain; the other thing I've noticed is that reads an awful lot like the Tao Te Ching (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_te_ching)..
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Excellent. Do let me know if you manage it; I got exhausted and gave up..
This is one of the little things that irks me. Brains process physical-visual-spatial information much faster than written information; therefore, if I see a door with a handle / raised bar on it, I think "must be a pull door", and pull it. It's normally only while failing to do this that I finish reading the sign that says "push".. Grr..
Yes. Yes yes yes. You seem to have raised a lot of the thoughts that have been bugging me, consciously or not, for years. I started noticing them in the IT world, but when you "get your eye in", you can spot them everywhere.
Have you ever read Christopher Alexander (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Alexander)'s The Timeless Way of Building (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Timeless_Way_of_Building) (@amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0195024028/))? It's the book that's supposed to have inspired the GoF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_of_four) to write Design Patterns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns). It seems to touch on a lot of these issues on the architectural domain; the other thing I've noticed is that reads an awful lot like the Tao Te Ching (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tao_te_ching)..