Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used?

Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by robocat on Friday November 26, 2021 @11:08PM (#29357316)

I see so many glass doors designed like that. The doors usually have a sticker that says “PUSH” on the push side, however the sticker is invariably printed with a transparent background so you can read it from the pull side. I don’t notice when I am reading something backwards/mirrored, so I am always pushing on the pull side…… Arrrrrrgh!

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by dalmo3 on Saturday November 27, 2021 @04:20AM (#29358834)

I also often fall for those signs that can be read from behind.

Also somewhat related, I hate road signs written on the road that read bottom up.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by usrusr on Saturday November 27, 2021 @05:02AM (#29359010)

The part of my brain that deciphers the mirrored text is so proud of its stupid little achievement that it shouts down the result from the easy version so that the part that tells my hands what to do only gets the mirrored instruction. Every single time.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the best-designed things you've ever used? by laurent92 on Saturday November 27, 2021 @02:48AM (#29358387)

At this point I believe it’s a tradition to design push doors this way.

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