[HN Gopher] Fantasy meets reality
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       Fantasy meets reality
        
       Author : dmazin
       Score  : 80 points
       Date   : 2023-07-31 07:18 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
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       | 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:
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       | 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.
        
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