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The door question should interest anyone who maintains housing: how can a closed door, to be opened either with lever or knob, signal whether it should be pushe
by everybodyknows 2y ago
The door question should interest anyone who maintains housing: how can a closed door, to be opened either with lever or knob, signal whether it should be pushed or pulled?
- the_sleaze_ 2y agoConvention over configuration.
- allears 2y agoA stylized graphic of a swinging door could be displayed to make it multi-lingual, but to do it just with design language sounds challenging. I'd love to know if there are any solutions to that.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2y agoIf I had to handle that, I'd put an up arrow for push and a down arrow for pull. I don't know if that works across cultures or not.
- lylejantzi3rd 2y agoAnything that's opened by pushing shouldn't have a handle to grab onto. Anything you pull should. Sort of like this: https://www.amazon.com/IRONWALLS-Commercial-Bar-Panic-Exit-Device-Emergency/dp/B0CD24W44L https://www.amazon.com/IRONWALLS-Commercial-Bar-Panic-Exit-D...
- readthenotes1 2y agoI once watched a person give up on trying to go into a room which had a poorly configured door handle. The "Norman door" concept made me feel much better about myself as I had always assumed that I was the stupid one, not the designer. I appreciate having the company.