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Intentionally Bad Door Usability: Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin

Jens Meiert, February 27, 2007 / February 5, 2008.

This entry is filed under Usability.

The Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin provides us with another example for bad door usability:

Alte Nationalgalerie, door 1.

The museum’s yet full of them:

Alte Nationalgalerie, door 2.

Interestingly and as opposed to that restroom door I mentioned a few weeks ago, this usually inferior usability is intended and legitimate anyway. Some of them hide technical stuff, as one of the guards explained to me, and surely the museum operator doesn’t want to have these doors distract anyone.

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  1. On March 2, 2007, 15:10 CET, Robin Hodson said:

    Even less helpful are doors that open into nowhere:
    http://www.thecentraloffice.com/VA/plmyvaw.jpg

    … Even if you put steps near them, not near enough here:
    http://www.tnt-audio.com/jpg/1_factory.jpg

    My office has three of these, two plumbed- and half-walled- -over, doing time as walls. (Sorry, no photos.)

  2. On March 6, 2007, 19:22 CET, Jens Meiert said:

    Haha great, now that is really “even less helpful” ;)

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