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Re:To be a better UI/UX designer, go to a foreign country, r... by GotAnyMegadeth on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @10:29AM (#5518259)
* Some of the traffic lights in some European countries.

This is not the case in most of England, also in France there is often another set of lights lower down on the pole positioned for the driver in the car in the front of the queue.

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Re:To be a better UI/UX designer, go to a foreign country, r... by tjansen on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @10:32AM (#5518280)
Here in Germany as well, but then it gets really confusing. My favorite example is this intersection: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=K%C3%BChlwetterstra%C3%9Fe,+D...

It has three lights, only two of them positioned at the stop line.

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Re:To be a better UI/UX designer, go to a foreign country, r... by iso8859-1 on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @12:05PM (#5519043)
@iooi: The blurred building is there because someone requested it blurred: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Street_View_privacy_conc...
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Re:To be a better UI/UX designer, go to a foreign country, r... by iooi on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @12:02PM (#5519011)
Why is there a huge blurred building in this particular interserction?
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Re:To be a better UI/UX designer, go to a foreign country, r... by iso8859-1 on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @12:04PM (#5519036)
What is the problem here? You expected more at the stop line? Why?
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Re:To be a better UI/UX designer, go to a foreign country, r... by tjansen on Tuesday April 09, 2013 @12:14PM (#5519107)
It's confusing to have three lights for a single stop line, especially the light on the left is odd. You don't know which of the traffic lights apply to you and it makes you look for another stop line.
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