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Least Resistance: How Desire Paths Can Lead to Better Design
- joelg 10y agoRelatedly, the courtyard outside the Stata Center at MIT has several bizarre, intersecting sidewalks that cover all of the common paths that people traverse: http://imgur.com/b1BpvlU http://imgur.com/b1BpvlU
- gumby 10y agoI never new that these had a name; when I was an MIT student we simply referred to them as "nerd paths".
- wlesieutre 10y agoThe interior of the student union building at IIT was famously designed around these. The site was previously an empty field, and the building's main circulation paths are laid out so that you can still walk through the building along the worn down routes cutting across the grass. https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/File:MCTC_planta_accesos.jpg https://en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/File:MCTC_planta_a...
- metasean 10y agoRelated articles: - http://www.opin.com/folksonomy-well-worn-path/ http://www.opin.com/folksonomy-well-worn-path/ - http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communication/folksonomies.html http://www.adammathes.com/academic/computer-mediated-communi... (from over a decade ago)