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Intentionally Bad Door Usability: Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin

Jens O. Meiert, February 27, 2007 / October 19, 2008.

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The Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin provides us with additional examples of bad door usability:

Alte Nationalgalerie, door 1.
Alte Nationalgalerie, door 2.

Interestingly and as opposed to the restroom door I mentioned a few weeks ago, this type of inferior usability is intended yet 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:

    Great, that is indeed “less helpful”, yes.

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