[HN Gopher] Fantasy meets reality ___________________________________________________________________ Fantasy meets reality Author : dmazin Score : 80 points Date : 2023-07-31 07:18 UTC (15 hours ago) (HTM) web link (cabel.com) (TXT) w3m dump (cabel.com) | ChrisMarshallNY wrote: | This is a great post, showing the unintended consequences of | design. | | I have found that I can almost never accurately predict how my | interfaces will be actually perceived and used. | | I try to make things flexible, as I'll almost certainly need to | make changes. | acomjean wrote: | I worked in a modern art museum as security. I had someone ask me | is it was art or a bench. "Just a bench". There were some random | wood art in the floor of that room. | | In one exhibit there was an art teeter-totter, that had a | prominent sign on a post not to sit. This sign was noticed by the | woman who placed her toddler on one side before I interjected | with an "excuse me". She turned beet red. We all want to... | | That job was boring but had its moments. | arp242 wrote: | I've done this; the security lady aggressively shouted at me | and frantically pointed at a small sign on the other side of | the exhibit. Since some exhibits _were_ "please DO touch" | interactive I thought it wasn't that bad of a mistake but she | disagreed. I'm guessing she responded to strongly because I was | far from the first person to make this mistake, which is a good | indication that your design sucks... | | "You must be this tall and clairvoyant to enter". | | Still not as bad as the traffic controller who physically | assaulted me because I failed to see the "stop sign" given in | the car lane on the other end of the road from my bicycle in | the bicycle lane... Ran up to me and pushed me off my bike | shouting "PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IGNORING THIS ALL NIGHT AND I'M SICK | OF IT!" ... yeah, because what you're doing makes no sense | mate... | galago wrote: | Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has a bench built by George | Nakashima that guests cans sit on. Its one of my favorite | things at MFA. | | https://www.mfa.org/article/2020/bench-with-back | Scofield67 wrote: | [flagged] | IshKebab wrote: | I feel like this is a lesson everyone needs to know and few | people do. I learnt it from _The Design of Everyday Things_ | (great book). | | Kind of feels like the author didn't _quite_ get it still. Like | he 's realised why people sit on the throne thing but he hasn't | realised that the solution is to put benches nearby! Or better | yet - turn it into a thing that you _can_ sit on. | a_shovel wrote: | I have no idea what that first thing is supposed to be if not | some weird kind of throne. | shantara wrote: | The grass example is also a nice demonstration of how the | conventions differ around the world. In some countries it is | taken for granted that one can sit or lie down on any lawn in a | public area. In others, they are carefully manicured and | surrounded by fences and inscriptions trying to dissuade people | from doing the obvious thing everyone wants to! | thriftwy wrote: | In Paris it is customary that people lie on the grass that is | available in patches all over the city and grown for that | purpose. | | So if you make a smooth patch of grass in your Disneyland Paris | you invite everybody to assume resting position. | minsc_and_boo wrote: | Fire codes show emergent design as well. The end-of-day | fireworks in Disney Paris has the square packed corner to | corner, while in the US there are roped off escape routes on | the roads. | paulette449 wrote: | Brought to mind the Brooklyn Bridge Park playground feature that | had the unfortunate side effect of burning children who mounted | it on hot days: | | https://www.brooklynpaper.com/breaking-brooklyn-bridge-parks... | niccl wrote: | Reminds me of the Len Lye sculpture broken by someone climbing it | then hanging off the spinner. I get someone sitting on a thing | that looks like a seat, but that seemed way out of the range of | things you could reasonably expect to cater for | | https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/wellingtons-water-whirler-snap... | scns wrote: | > Give me playgrounds! | | Let the inner child off its' leash! Be free. It is a theme park, | a place to have fun. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-07-31 23:00 UTC)