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UI designers (or especially the ones that have blogs) seem highly susceptible to 2 common afflictions, which affect many people when they live for too long in t

UI designers (or especially the ones that have blogs) seem highly susceptible to 2 common afflictions, which affect many people when they live for too long in their art: -- Believing that fonts and lines can solve major world problems -- Believing that anything they touch must've needed solving I find it rare that a UI designer will say "that version of it is fine, and better than the additional complications I would introduce if I put my mind to it!" Sure, there are some interesting aspects of this redesign. But let's not overstate faults of the old map that many people were just fine with for decades, to justify the need for a redesign. You can even see the creator's belief in his own work's importance, as the last picture on the webpage shows he's actually posted the map without authorization in some subway car.

frosted-flakes 8y ago
Do you think he hacked the video monitors to display his map too? The picture is clearly Photoshopped. [Edit: on closer inspection, it looks like the video monitor is photoshopped in, but the paper map is real. I like the idea of seeing how well a product works in an actual environment and getting real feedback.] I find your comment to be overly cynical. The map designer never said his map can "solve world problems", and it is clear to me that Berlin's map is far from ideal. He had an idea and wanted to try it out, and now he wants to know what people think. Is there something wrong with that? Drawing unoffical transit maps is a common practice, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it.
- netsharc 8y ago
  Try it out? The sub-headline is "A transit map should be [bla bla]. Berlin has received such a transit map.". One of the last words are: is it an official map? Not yet. [bla bla] then it will become an official one. I think he thinks he's the Designer God's gift to humanity. The design is nice, but IMO the guy's kind of a dick.
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NelsonMinar 8y ago
I'm a little confused; who do you think is supposed to solve the problem of a clear readable transit map other than a designer? Also what is this "old map that many people were just fine with for decades"? The BVG revises their map, what, yearly? They had to cope with a rather radical set of revisions a couple of decades ago. And more recently with the opening of the new Hauptbahnhof the entire transit system of Berlin has rotated around a new axis.

frosted-flakes 8y ago

Do you think he hacked the video monitors to display his map too? The picture is clearly Photoshopped. [Edit: on closer inspection, it looks like the video monitor is photoshopped in, but the paper map is real. I like the idea of seeing how well a product works in an actual environment and getting real feedback.] I find your comment to be overly cynical. The map designer never said his map can "solve world problems", and it is clear to me that Berlin's map is far from ideal. He had an idea and wanted to try it out, and now he wants to know what people think. Is there something wrong with that? Drawing unoffical transit maps is a common practice, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with it.

netsharc 8y ago
Try it out? The sub-headline is "A transit map should be [bla bla]. Berlin has received such a transit map.". One of the last words are: is it an official map? Not yet. [bla bla] then it will become an official one. I think he thinks he's the Designer God's gift to humanity. The design is nice, but IMO the guy's kind of a dick.

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NelsonMinar 8y ago

I'm a little confused; who do you think is supposed to solve the problem of a clear readable transit map other than a designer? Also what is this "old map that many people were just fine with for decades"? The BVG revises their map, what, yearly? They had to cope with a rather radical set of revisions a couple of decades ago. And more recently with the opening of the new Hauptbahnhof the entire transit system of Berlin has rotated around a new axis.