{"id":1160,"date":"2017-10-27T13:19:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T18:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2017-10-27T13:19:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T18:19:24","slug":"the-tragedy-of-norman-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2017\/10\/27\/the-tragedy-of-norman-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tragedy of Norman Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Who among us has not experienced the silent embarrassment of struggling to push open a door, only to realize it is clearly marked &#8216;Pull&#8217;? Or perhaps you&#8217;ve puzzled over an unfamiliar faucet, or been flummoxed by a light switch that defies logic.&#8221; So begins a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/magazine\/the-inconvenience-of-norman-doors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Pacific Standard<\/i> article about &#8220;Norman Doors,&#8221;<\/a> beautifully designed but dysfunctional objects. See a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yY96hTb8WgI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bad door design video<\/a> for additional information; the video references a <a href=\"https:\/\/99percentinvisible.org\/article\/norman-doors-dont-know-whether-push-pull-blame-design\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>99% Invisible<\/em> podcast about Norman Doors<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"It&#039;s not you. Bad doors are everywhere.\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yY96hTb8WgI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Who among us has not experienced the silent embarrassment of struggling to push open a door, only to realize it is clearly marked &#8216;Pull&#8217;? Or perhaps you&#8217;ve puzzled over an unfamiliar faucet, or been flummoxed by a light switch that defies logic.&#8221; So begins a\u00a0Pacific Standard article about &#8220;Norman Doors,&#8221; beautifully designed but dysfunctional objects. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}