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There's a reason why some doors frustrate you

submitted by SFOGuy

8 years 1 month 3 weeks ago

Found this an interesting look into how we use cues to understand stuff around us---how it works, how we "discover" it works...

For me, very much "engineering"...

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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, March 1st, 2016 9:06am PST - promote requested by makach.

Putting a "PUSH" sign is not a step in the right direction, it's papering over the cracks.

Even something as simple as a "push" sign requires a cognitive effort.

The one word I was waiting for in this video was affordance. A handle always affords pulling, a panel affords pushing. This really isn't rocket science

A door that opens only in one direction is a bad design.

Not necessarily. It'd be pretty badly designed if the door to my bathroom opened both ways, because if someone left the bathroom at the same time as someone walked past, they'd be in line for a concussion. Same for most doors that connect to thoroughfares. There's plenty of good reasons to have certain doors opening just one way.

A door that opens only in one direction is a bad design.

Donald Norman's book mentioned in the video was a text book I had in college. I especially liked the chapter entitled "The Psychopathology of Everyday Things" (IIRC).

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