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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 116 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Pretty sure the user experience folk are screaming for a path to be built there but are getting ignored.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 39 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They aren't being ignored. The corner needs to be a right angle for compliance reasons.

[–] madjo@feddit.nl 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

But the actual corner isn't even a right angled corner.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They were forced to cut corners in implementation.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Everyone says, they are not bringing their best angles. Triangles. Quadrangles. And some I assume are acute angles.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

All I want is an angle who's acute and not right.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

What we should do is put chainlink fence around the corner, but make the part that the users loved the most accessible with a monthly pass that they can only walk on with shoes purchased at the university store.

- spez

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

You mod 16 subs, what do you get?

Another day blocking API requests.

Saint Peter don’t DM me cuz I can’t go.

I owe my soul to Spez’s asshole.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 22 points 2 weeks ago

It's important we do it that way for our 🌟brand identity🌟.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

How about a pond?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago

Management wants us to add more AI and Machine Learning so the user ends up in the parking lot.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 87 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

A lot of universities with large campus grounds take the approach of observing the natural foot traffic wear patterns on grassy areas, and then build walkways where the most worn down parts are.

Its... pretty obvious.

If everyone is taking an alternate, non designed path... your design sucks, modify it to facilitate what people find more effective.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 41 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

And there's a whole community for them! Not sure how to link to it though.

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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 2 weeks ago

iirc it's what they did in central park. Don't create paths and later pave the desire paths that show up

[–] zante@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

Don’t underestimate youthful rebellion!

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[–] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 71 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] grue@lemmy.world 70 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Whenever that happens, the design is wrong.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Fixed. Added a wall with razor wire on top to prevent this.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] superkret@feddit.org 18 points 2 weeks ago

In IT, sometimes there's security reasons for the designed detour.
But then good design would completely obstruct the shortcut from the user's view.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

change log: We've adjusted the 20 year old UI to better reflect modern aesthetic trends that our new hires learned in school.

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 5 points 2 weeks ago

Works as intended. kthxbye

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[–] Routhinator@startrek.website 57 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Designers need to wake up and realize their job is to understand what the user wants not what they saw in a wet dream.

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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 42 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I, unfortunately, have to use GitHub at $DAYJOB and this is me. I navigate most of the webpage via the URL bar now.

Basically, let's say I'm working on a repo github.com/tomato/sauce/ and want to navigate to the Releases page.

Via the webpage:

  1. Type github.com into the URL bar.
  2. Don't find tomato/sauce/ in the list of recent repos, even though it's the only repo I work on.
  3. Click on some other repo that's at least in the tomato/ org.
  4. Navigate up to the tomato/ org.
  5. Find the sauce/ repo in the list.
  6. Traverse half the fucking screen to hit the "Releases" heading in the middle of the About-section.

Via the Firefox URL bar:

  1. Type gi→t→s→r→.
  2. Hit Enter.

I admit, it's hard to compete with the latter, but I wouldn't know how to navigate that way, if the former wasn't so terrible.

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

What kind of sicko try to find their repos from the recent list on the main page??

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 weeks ago

Hopefully somebody else $DAYJOBs at GitHub and will see this.

[–] Highsight@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

This is me, but with my work's Azure DevOps. Nice to meet a fellow auto-complete bro.

[–] sylveon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 2 weeks ago
[–] fubo@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago

"What the user needed" / "What management demanded"

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 24 points 2 weeks ago
[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

What the shit happened to that tree's shadow?

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 weeks ago

Probably the tree is shadowing the same area that a window in or near the building the picture is being taken from is illuminating.

[–] NaturalViber@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Also, why is this shadow off from the others

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

that's just perspective, they're only parallel when looking for a perfectly top-down angle

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[–] whithom@discuss.online 9 points 2 weeks ago

That’s right, it goes in the square hole.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Uhh, so looking carefully at the picture, it appears they shouldn't have bothered with the inner pathway at all, and should have just connected the bridge over the canal (?) in the background to whatever is under the camera.

Not only does the current design fail to provide a short path in demand, it leaves a goofy little boulevard behind the benches in what appears to be a dense, desirable urban area where you shouldn't waste space.

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