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Ikea stores are Hilbert curves, not mazes. Mazes have split paths and lots of dead ends, those features make them disorienting. Hilbert curves are a single twis
by bmn__ 9y ago
Ikea stores are Hilbert curves, not mazes. Mazes have split paths and lots of dead ends, those features make them disorienting. Hilbert curves are a single twisty path, which only makes it long, but not disorienting.
The design of the path through the storey was not chosen to annoy you, but to make optimal use of display and saleroom space.
- sverige 9y agoWhile the design may not have been chosen for that purpose, it does indeed annoy me. And I suspect that it was designed that way more to force people to look at the goods in every single department, rather than to optimize the use of space. But yes, Hilbert curve rather than maze, makes sense.