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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Pretty sure the user experience folk are screaming for a path to be built there but are getting ignored.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They aren't being ignored. The corner needs to be a right angle for compliance reasons.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But the actual corner isn't even a right angled corner.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They were forced to cut corners in implementation.

[–] jaybone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everyone says, they are not bringing their best angles. Triangles. Quadrangles. And some I assume are acute angles.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

All I want is an angle who's acute and not right.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What we should do is put chainlink fence around the corner, but make the part that the users loved the most accessible with a monthly pass that they can only walk on with shoes purchased at the university store.

- spez

[–] jaybone 9 points 1 month ago

You mod 16 subs, what do you get?

Another day blocking API requests.

Saint Peter don’t DM me cuz I can’t go.

I owe my soul to Spez’s asshole.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

It's important we do it that way for our 🌟brand identity🌟.

[–] danc4498 5 points 1 month ago

How about a pond?

[–] jaybone 5 points 1 month ago

Management wants us to add more AI and Machine Learning so the user ends up in the parking lot.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 month ago (19 children)

A lot of universities with large campus grounds take the approach of observing the natural foot traffic wear patterns on grassy areas, and then build walkways where the most worn down parts are.

Its... pretty obvious.

If everyone is taking an alternate, non designed path... your design sucks, modify it to facilitate what people find more effective.

[–] paddirn 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] pageflight 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

And there's a whole community for them! Not sure how to link to it though.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

iirc it's what they did in central park. Don't create paths and later pave the desire paths that show up

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Don’t underestimate youthful rebellion!

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[–] grue 72 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Whenever that happens, the design is wrong.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fixed. Added a wall with razor wire on top to prevent this.

[–] grue 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

In IT, sometimes there's security reasons for the designed detour.
But then good design would completely obstruct the shortcut from the user's view.

[–] Duamerthrax 9 points 1 month ago

change log: We've adjusted the 20 year old UI to better reflect modern aesthetic trends that our new hires learned in school.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Works as intended. kthxbye

[–] mypasswordis1234 70 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Designers need to wake up and realize their job is to understand what the user wants not what they saw in a wet dream.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I, unfortunately, have to use GitHub at $DAYJOB and this is me. I navigate most of the webpage via the URL bar now.

Basically, let's say I'm working on a repo github.com/tomato/sauce/ and want to navigate to the Releases page.

Via the webpage:

  1. Type github.com into the URL bar.
  2. Don't find tomato/sauce/ in the list of recent repos, even though it's the only repo I work on.
  3. Click on some other repo that's at least in the tomato/ org.
  4. Navigate up to the tomato/ org.
  5. Find the sauce/ repo in the list.
  6. Traverse half the fucking screen to hit the "Releases" heading in the middle of the About-section.

Via the Firefox URL bar:

  1. Type gi→t→s→r→.
  2. Hit Enter.

I admit, it's hard to compete with the latter, but I wouldn't know how to navigate that way, if the former wasn't so terrible.

[–] NorthWestWind 11 points 1 month ago

What kind of sicko try to find their repos from the recent list on the main page??

[–] Highsight 5 points 1 month ago

This is me, but with my work's Azure DevOps. Nice to meet a fellow auto-complete bro.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Hopefully somebody else $DAYJOBs at GitHub and will see this.

[–] fubo 32 points 1 month ago

"What the user needed" / "What management demanded"

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (4 children)

What the shit happened to that tree's shadow?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Probably the tree is shadowing the same area that a window in or near the building the picture is being taken from is illuminating.

[–] NaturalViber 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Also, why is this shadow off from the others

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

that's just perspective, they're only parallel when looking for a perfectly top-down angle

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The tree on the right has that block missing in its shadow, the trees on the left are casting their shadows in a slightly different direction, and they guy on the dirt path's shadow seems too dark and clear. Once you pointed out something was wrong, it's hard not to see other mistakes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The sun is fairly low in the sky, just a bit to the right of the guy on the dirt path, whose shadow is almost but not quite straight vertical.

The guy casts a darker and more crisp, or less diffuse shadow because he is less translucent, or more opaque, than tree leaves, and because the total distance from the heighest tree leaves to the ground is greater than the total distance from his head to the ground.

The lines of the tree trunk and lamppost shadows all converge toward where the sun is, if extended toward it.

The illuminated square in the one tree's shadow is likely a reflection from a window or some kind of metal fixture from a building or object behind the pov of the camera.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

That’s right, it goes in the square hole.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's ancient.

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