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In the spirit of humility that this article promotes, can anyone explain to me why so many doors have handles that stick out when they’re push doors and a sign
by nyokodo 5y ago
In the spirit of humility that this article promotes, can anyone explain to me why so many doors have handles that stick out when they’re push doors and a sign that says push instead of having no handle and say a protruding flat push surface that requires no sign and intuitively indicates to push even for the sight impaired?
- csours 5y agoThe people who build, buy, and commission things are not the same ones who use them.
- deltaonefour 5y agoSaves manufacturing costs. When I make a door I want to make one model that will function for every use case. The "pull bar" can be used for push and pull so I put it on both sides and be done with it.
- closeparen 5y agoMy household was a little more conspiratorial, so my childhood version of “the engineers must be stupid” was “they figured out it was a good way to rip you off.”
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- aidenn0 5y agoAlso if the bar goes all the way across it can be pre-assembled without regard to left- or right-handed doors.
- pm90 5y agoProbably contractors built it as a mistake and then users use a cheap hack rather than pay to replace it.
- jethro_tell 5y agolol, this is the very action the article is saying you should avoid. Assuming stupidity when you don't really know anything about the subject.
- scottlamb 5y agoNo good reason. The book he mentioned here talks about it. > Sometimes things really are poorly designed (check out The Design of Everyday Things) They're sometimes called Norman doors after the author of that book. (Seems weird to me to name something after the person who pointed out how bad it is, but whatever...)
- notahacker 5y agoHandles can be used to close doors as well as open them...
- frosted-flakes 5y agoYes, but these types of doors tend to be self-closing.
- mellavora 5y agohandles can also be used to stop doors from closing