Truthfully it’s a design issue. If people keep coming up to a door and pulling on it, it’s because the design of the door is instructing them to do so. Design imparts information. A door in a home can have simple knobs - anyone living there can just learn which doors to push/pull. A door in a public space instead needs to be designed to tell people how to operate it, even without any labeling.
A door is a simple device. It shouldn’t require reading labels or a manual. It’s operation should be abundantly obvious. After all, even those who don’t speak the language or are illiterate need to be able to operate doors. A door that needs instructions is one that is poorly designed.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 2 days ago
And sometimes you get so used to there being brightly colored ads,
corporate propagandamotivational messages and various warning signs everywhere, that you develop a blindness for everything too flashy and ignore it until you encounter a roadblock that doesn’t yield.filcuk@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
This is true and not just about ads. It’s called ‘sign blindness’.
People often run on autopilot when doing things as basic as opening doors, and reading requires direct attention.
It’s not (always) about being dumb or careless, it’s our nature.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You don’t normally have to step around a billboard.
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 2 days ago
Good thing they weren’t specifically talking about billboards and instead were speaking to the much broader spectrum of advertising strategies.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Good thing you aren’t them so its not up to you to say what they were talking about.