{"id":205,"date":"2012-01-30T05:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=205"},"modified":"2021-11-17T11:20:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T11:20:48","slug":"which-way-does-the-door-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Which way does the door open?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are <strong>tons of badly designed doors<\/strong>. For example <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baddesigns.com\/3doors.html\">an oddly placed bar<\/a> to keep design consistency or&nbsp;the <a href=\"http:\/\/ergonomics.about.com\/od\/ergonomicbasics\/ss\/bad_designs_2.htm\">door opening in the wrong direction<\/a>. It&#8217;s hard to believe but there are <strong>two simple rules<\/strong> with doors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Doors in people&#8217;s home open inwards<\/strong> (the hinges are on the inside so it is not easy for burglars to just take off the door to enter the house).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Door in public buildings need to open outwards<\/strong> or in the direction of fire exits (for safety reasons while evacuating the building).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>However, it is not always easy to figure which is the right way (especially inside the public buildings where fire exits paths are not obvious). In such cases, <strong>the door needs clues so people handle them subconsciously<\/strong>. Take this door as a bad example.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the corridor, I have two <strong>handles<\/strong> on both doors which <strong>suggest<\/strong> that I<strong> need to pull<\/strong> them. Everything fine here <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no_float\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/door_handles1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When <strong>exiting<\/strong> the corridor (the same door) <strong>I have the same handles again<\/strong>! This would be fine if the doors would swing in both directions which is not the case. Obviously someone complained and they <strong>solved the issue with two small stickers over the handles which say &quot;PUSH&quot;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no_float\" src=\"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/door_handles2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Whenever I exit the building I subconsciously grab the handle and pull. Then I realise that I need to push it. The sticker is of no help. Who reads manuals to open the door? Such <strong>simple things shouldn&#8217;t have manuals<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>This can be easily <strong>solved by removing the handles<\/strong>. <strong>If there&#8217;s nothing to be pulled, people with instinctively push it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are tons of badly designed doors. For example an oddly placed bar to keep design consistency or&nbsp;the door opening in the wrong direction. It&#8217;s hard to believe but there are two simple rules with doors: Doors in people&#8217;s home open inwards (the hinges are on the inside so it is not easy for burglars&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1452,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/1452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pim.famnit.upr.si\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}