Design failure: entrance steps
Posted 21 Oct 2011
It seems a design failure when a caution sign is required to advise people coming into the building’s main entrance that steps are present.
Your iPhone is not optimized as a phone
Posted 18 Oct 2011
Daily Life, Design, The Little Things | Leave a Comment
As an AT&T customer, I was not particularly surprised when I saw the above message pop onto the screen of my iPhone. And, yes, I was using the phone at the time.
Baby steps to clean your hands
Posted 14 Oct 2011
Daily Life, Design, Signs, Weird | 4 Comments
This type of sign seems to be popping up in bathrooms all over the place these days. Detailed instructions on how you ought to wash your hands. Now, I know a lot of people choose not to wash their hands when they finish using the toilet, but do we really think it is from a lack of knowledge?
That is the general question. Now, specifically relating to the instructions on this sign:
- Do we expect people to carry around fingernail brushes with them? If not, are we providing them? If we are providing them, would it ever be more sanitary to use a communal fingernail brush than to just work the soap around your nails as much as possible by hand?
- Doesn’t washing your hands “up to your elbows” seem a bit much? If people are really not washing their hands at all, don’t we think a slightly easier to complete ask is in order?
Your thoughts please.
The Fairbanks Valve
Posted 12 Oct 2011
Daily Life, Design | 5 Comments
This massive valve is just sitting there, easily accessible in a regularly traversed hallway in an academic building in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
Is it just me, or do other folks find it enormously tempting to shut the “Fairbanks” valve off, just to see what happens?
A no-necked people?
Posted 10 Oct 2011
Talk about adding insult to injury! This neck brace has the audacity to label certain patients as “no necks”!
