Comments on: Pier pressure http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2007/08/03/pier-pressure/ Design and human behaviour Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:34:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Sean Lind http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2007/08/03/pier-pressure/comment-page-1/#comment-582691 Sean Lind Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:37:49 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2007/08/03/pier-pressure/#comment-582691 I don't think the sign was intended to trick people into "not seeing" the other way to the end of the pier. I think it's the most succinct way to let tourists know that there is another exit. The biggest hurdle they would come across is the person who wouldn't mind checking it out, but doesn't want to have to come back out the way they came before continuing on. It's just letting them know they will still get to where they're going. I don’t think the sign was intended to trick people into “not seeing” the other way to the end of the pier. I think it’s the most succinct way to let tourists know that there is another exit. The biggest hurdle they would come across is the person who wouldn’t mind checking it out, but doesn’t want to have to come back out the way they came before continuing on. It’s just letting them know they will still get to where they’re going.

]]> By: Architectures of Control at Miscellaneous Objections http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2007/08/03/pier-pressure/comment-page-1/#comment-82711 Architectures of Control at Miscellaneous Objections Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:37:56 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2007/08/03/pier-pressure/#comment-82711 [...] A blog I’ve gotten into recently is Architectures of Control, which looks at, well, architectures of control — how design is used to guide (or control) people’s actions. Today, the blog notes this scam: [...] [...] A blog I’ve gotten into recently is Architectures of Control, which looks at, well, architectures of control — how design is used to guide (or control) people’s actions. Today, the blog notes this scam: [...]

]]> By: Crosbie Fitch http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2007/08/03/pier-pressure/comment-page-1/#comment-82677 Crosbie Fitch Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:03:44 +0000 http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/2007/08/03/pier-pressure/#comment-82677 There are quite a few 'longer routes' that passengers on the underground are directed to. You can tell that the more adventurous have discovered short-cuts. The longer routes may well be better for congestion, but like ants, people start realising that as long as the sheep take the long way round, the goats can get in/out quicker via entrance instead of exit or vice versa. The worst misdirection I came across recently was cycling via a Dover ferry to France. Without publicising it to me and many port staff, someone had painted a big and long red line on the tarmac in the ferry port with signs instructing cyclists to follow the red line. So me and my pals did, avoiding the passport control, and ending up departing from regular vehicles, bypassing a freight barrier, and entering some administrative zone, whereupon when we halted, wondering if the red line was truly correct, the check point guard caught us up. He didn't know about the red line either. So we retraced our tracks and joined the vehicular traffic as I've been used to doing on previous occasions. Somehow I think the red line was in preparation for zillions of cyclo-tourists travelling to/from the UK for the Tour de France event. A pity they'd painted the line without telling anyone. Cyclists are often given little thought when it comes to their negotiation of ferry ports (especially issues of which side of the lane one is supposed to cycle on). There are quite a few ‘longer routes’ that passengers on the underground are directed to. You can tell that the more adventurous have discovered short-cuts.
The longer routes may well be better for congestion, but like ants, people start realising that as long as the sheep take the long way round, the goats can get in/out quicker via entrance instead of exit or vice versa.

The worst misdirection I came across recently was cycling via a Dover ferry to France.

Without publicising it to me and many port staff, someone had painted a big and long red line on the tarmac in the ferry port with signs instructing cyclists to follow the red line. So me and my pals did, avoiding the passport control, and ending up departing from regular vehicles, bypassing a freight barrier, and entering some administrative zone, whereupon when we halted, wondering if the red line was truly correct, the check point guard caught us up. He didn’t know about the red line either. So we retraced our tracks and joined the vehicular traffic as I’ve been used to doing on previous occasions.

Somehow I think the red line was in preparation for zillions of cyclo-tourists travelling to/from the UK for the Tour de France event.

A pity they’d painted the line without telling anyone. Cyclists are often given little thought when it comes to their negotiation of ferry ports (especially issues of which side of the lane one is supposed to cycle on).

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