Rethinking the Hotel Closet

by Anne McLaughlin on January 16, 2009 · 1 comment

in affordances, humor, warnings

Great picture from reader Kim Wolfinbarger, University of Oklahoma:

“Thought you might enjoy this example of an affordance gone wrong. I had never considered this use for a sprinkler head, but obviously some other hotel guests had.”

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Dan Soltzberg January 16, 2009 at 1:48 pm

Funny to see your post–I wrote something recently about the same affordance/sign combo: http://www.portigal.com/blog/affordance-control/

Time for a rethink of sprinkler design?

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