Comments on: Design in the Wild: Settle down with the labels, muchacho http://www.everydayux.com/2008/04/01/design-in-the-wild-settle-down-with-the-labels-muchacho/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:40:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: karen bonna rainert http://www.everydayux.com/2008/04/01/design-in-the-wild-settle-down-with-the-labels-muchacho/#comment-146 karen bonna rainert Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:20:10 +0000 http://www.everydayux.com/?p=156#comment-146 ha! lia, i thought the same thing! ha! lia, i thought the same thing!

]]> By: lia http://www.everydayux.com/2008/04/01/design-in-the-wild-settle-down-with-the-labels-muchacho/#comment-125 lia Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:49:34 +0000 http://www.everydayux.com/?p=156#comment-125 p.s. you know i love you, but it's terribly depressing that the list of superstars on the sidebar is completely male. dude! wtf p.s. you know i love you, but it’s terribly depressing that the list of superstars on the sidebar is completely male. dude! wtf

]]> By: lia http://www.everydayux.com/2008/04/01/design-in-the-wild-settle-down-with-the-labels-muchacho/#comment-124 lia Tue, 01 Apr 2008 19:48:06 +0000 http://www.everydayux.com/?p=156#comment-124 i think my favorite example of this kind of thing were the bathrooms at a steakhouse in manila that used action figures of marge and homer in the doors—no words, just simpsons! i think my favorite example of this kind of thing were the bathrooms at a steakhouse in manila that used action figures of marge and homer in the doors—no words, just simpsons!

]]> By: micah http://www.everydayux.com/2008/04/01/design-in-the-wild-settle-down-with-the-labels-muchacho/#comment-123 micah Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:18:14 +0000 http://www.everydayux.com/?p=156#comment-123 The extra 'Gentlemen' sign strikes me as an afterthought. Like the sort of thing they put up after too many customers complained they couldn't tell which bathroom was which because they don't read Spanish and are not literate in basic masculine/feminine symbology. On the other hand, I certainly know plenty of restaurants that get away away with even subtler indications as to which bathroom is which. So I would take this more as an example of how much the consumer of the design matters. If the original, 'soulful' design had been sufficiently effective in it's context, the 'Gentlemen' sign would have been necessary. The extra ‘Gentlemen’ sign strikes me as an afterthought. Like the sort of thing they put up after too many customers complained they couldn’t tell which bathroom was which because they don’t read Spanish and are not literate in basic masculine/feminine symbology. On the other hand, I certainly know plenty of restaurants that get away away with even subtler indications as to which bathroom is which.

So I would take this more as an example of how much the consumer of the design matters. If the original, ’soulful’ design had been sufficiently effective in it’s context, the ‘Gentlemen’ sign would have been necessary.

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