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Spotted: Use in Case of Fire Only

January 19, 2010
Elevator button reading To Be Used in Case of Fire Only

I’m not sure why elevators seem to be magnets for confusing interfaces (although I probably could take some guesses). To add another example to the list, my friend Scott recently sent me this picture: How great is that button? Apparently it was on a wall all by itself, with nothing at all to indicate what [...]

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Spotted: Elevator

December 30, 2009
Elevator sign

Perhaps it only goes down, Alice in Wonderland style. This is the view through the doorway after the Oakland airport security screening. I encountered it while traveling this week and it gave me a chuckle. Only after I walked past the sign, halfway to the far escalator and then turned left, could I finally see [...]

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Silly user.

September 15, 2009
elevator stop switch

This red switch used to be a great feature of the elevator in my condo building. You used to be able to flip it to “Stop” once the doors were open, and it would hold the elevator stopped and the doors open until you flipped it back to “Run.” I used this switch a lot. [...]

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Spotted: 3, 4, 5, oops!

August 1, 2009
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Let’s see… Phones, calculators, computers, and almost every other number input device have THREE numbers to a row. This machine has FIVE snacks to a row, and they are numbered by the row, column grid. So what are the designers of this vending machine to do but put their number buttons FOUR to a row, [...]

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Spotted: Loyalty Cards

August 1, 2009
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How many of those cards in your wallet are loyalty cards? You know, the ones that give you special coupons at a specific store, or when they’re punched ten times get you a freebie. Probably quite a few, right? Most of us have one or two credit cards, a bank card, an ID, and the [...]

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Spotted: You (and You) are Here

July 30, 2009
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Perhaps this Noah’s Bagels is built on a singularity in space-time wherein two different groups of people can occupy one space without discomfort or confusion.

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This Is NOT Your Dumpster

March 8, 2009
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I see this place almost every day and am both amused by the poor setup and impressed by the lengths the owners of the dumpster have gone to in order to clarify who should have access to it. The dumpster is accessed by this driveway, which is the driveway that belongs to the building on [...]

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