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Design Errands - a series of observations of design in the wild by a philosopher in Paris and a designer in Abu Dhabi. http://nyuad.design

It looked as if it was a good idea at the time: digital façades. #DesignErrands #DigitalDesign Image: Paris, April 2025. Credit RC.

DesignErrands's tweet image. It looked as if it was a good idea at the time: digital façades.

#DesignErrands #DigitalDesign

Image: Paris, April 2025. Credit RC.
DesignErrands's tweet image. It looked as if it was a good idea at the time: digital façades.

#DesignErrands #DigitalDesign

Image: Paris, April 2025. Credit RC.

Design for six-handed people. #DesignErrands #WaterWaste #Sustainability Image: Versailles, March 2025. Credit RC.


Life changing quantitative information. Image: University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Jan 2025. Credit RC.

DesignErrands's tweet image. Life changing quantitative information.

Image: University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Jan 2025. Credit RC.

Gone are those tedious mnemonic techniques to retrieve your clothes at the lockers. Image: MAC VAL Museum, March 2025. Credit RC.

DesignErrands's tweet image. Gone are those tedious mnemonic techniques to retrieve your clothes at the lockers.

Image: MAC VAL Museum, March 2025. Credit RC.

Should I look left, where the arrow suggests, or should I look right, where traffic comes from? #DesignErrands #Arrows #ConfusedDirections Image: Las Ramblas, Barcelona, February 2025. Credit RC.

DesignErrands's tweet image. Should I look left, where the arrow suggests, or should I look right, where traffic comes from?

#DesignErrands #Arrows #ConfusedDirections

Image: Las Ramblas, Barcelona, February 2025. Credit RC.

White Nights. Of course they had those Summer ice skating courts in St. Petersburg back then. Reading past the title before designing the cover is a luxury no designer can afford any longer. #DesignErrands #Anachronisms #judgebythecover Image: Italy, January 2025. Credit RC.

DesignErrands's tweet image. White Nights. Of course they had those Summer ice skating courts in St. Petersburg back then. Reading past the title before designing the cover is a luxury no designer can afford any longer.

#DesignErrands #Anachronisms #judgebythecover
 
Image: Italy, January 2025. Credit RC.

Why. Why. Why?! Architecture should be justifiable, and wear justification on its face. #DesignErrands #DesignJustification #JustifiableArchitecture Image: Maison-Blanche, Paris, Jan 2025. Credit RC.

DesignErrands's tweet image. Why. Why. Why?!

Architecture should be justifiable, and wear justification on its face.

#DesignErrands #DesignJustification #JustifiableArchitecture

Image: Maison-Blanche, Paris, Jan 2025. Credit RC.

North-up and South-up try to coexist. #DesignErrands #BadSignage #Maps Image: Paris, Métro line 14, January 2025. Credit RC.

DesignErrands's tweet image. North-up and South-up try to coexist.

#DesignErrands #BadSignage #Maps

Image: Paris, Métro line 14, January 2025. Credit RC.

Welcome, Martians! Note: an attempt was unsuccessfully made to use G. Translate. #DesignErrands #BadSignage #DigitalDisplayGoneWrong Image: Monza, December 2024. Credit RC

DesignErrands's tweet image. Welcome, Martians!

Note: an attempt was unsuccessfully made to use G. Translate.

#DesignErrands #BadSignage #DigitalDisplayGoneWrong

Image: Monza, December 2024. Credit RC

Maybe the led green button will open the faucet. Maybe it will open the door behind. Try, experiment! #DesignErrands #instructionsUnclear Image: Train Rennes-Lorient, France, déc 2024. Credit RC.

DesignErrands's tweet image. Maybe the led green button will open the faucet. Maybe it will open the door behind. Try, experiment!

#DesignErrands #instructionsUnclear

Image: Train Rennes-Lorient, France, déc 2024. Credit RC.

Why use m dash ( - ), when you can effectively disorient using the immediately salient right ➡ arrow, against the useless bottom arrow ⬇ (supposedly delivering relevant info, i.e. turn back)? #DesignErrands Image: Aix-en-Provence, hôtel The Originals, Nov 2024. Credit RC

DesignErrands's tweet image. Why use m dash ( - ), when you can effectively disorient using the immediately salient right ➡ arrow, against the useless bottom arrow ⬇ (supposedly delivering relevant info, i.e. turn back)?

#DesignErrands

Image: Aix-en-Provence, hôtel The Originals, Nov 2024. Credit RC

If your direction about directions is printed on the same sticker as the directions , expect it to land next to it, and stick. #DesignErrands #BadDirections Image: Caremar Boat to Naples, Nov. 2024. Credit RC.

DesignErrands's tweet image. If your direction about directions is printed on the same sticker as the directions , expect it to land next to it, and stick.

#DesignErrands #BadDirections

Image: Caremar Boat to Naples, Nov. 2024. Credit RC.

Take your time. #DesignErrands #Maps #ParisOrly Image: Paris Orly Airport, Oct 2024. Credit RC

DesignErrands's tweet image. Take your time.

#DesignErrands #Maps #ParisOrly

Image: Paris Orly Airport, Oct 2024. Credit RC

Reckless drivers won't care about the life of cyclists. But they would definitely try to avoid scratching the paint of their beloved cars. #DesignErrands #Cyclist #AgainstRecklessDriving #RoadSafety Image: France, Oct. 2024. Credit RC.

DesignErrands's tweet image. Reckless drivers won't care about the life of cyclists. But they would definitely try to avoid scratching the paint of their beloved cars.

#DesignErrands #Cyclist #AgainstRecklessDriving #RoadSafety 

Image: France, Oct. 2024. Credit RC.

What goes where? Did people learn the color codes, after all these years? The case for the maintenance of verbal communication. #DesignErrands #Signs Image: Monza, Railway Station, October 2024. Credit RC.

DesignErrands's tweet image. What goes where? Did people learn the color codes, after all these years? The case for the maintenance of verbal communication.

#DesignErrands #Signs

Image: Monza, Railway Station, October 2024. Credit RC.

Where, on which floor? What holds for book tables of contents may not hold for hospitals. Image: Monza, Italy, October 2024. Credit RC. #DesignErrands #BadSignage

DesignErrands's tweet image. Where, on which floor?  What holds for book tables of contents may not hold for hospitals.

Image: Monza, Italy, October 2024. Credit RC.

#DesignErrands #BadSignage

Traffic light for drone takeoff? Go/no go? If your streetlamp is heavily inspired by traffic light design, it will inevitably be processed as some kind of traffic light, and trigger interpretive challenges. #DesignErrands Image: Paris, Avenue d'Italie, October 2024. Credit RC.

DesignErrands's tweet image. Traffic light for drone takeoff? Go/no go?

If your streetlamp is heavily inspired by traffic light design, it will inevitably be processed as some kind of traffic light, and trigger interpretive challenges.

#DesignErrands

Image: Paris, Avenue d'Italie, October 2024. Credit RC.
DesignErrands's tweet image. Traffic light for drone takeoff? Go/no go?

If your streetlamp is heavily inspired by traffic light design, it will inevitably be processed as some kind of traffic light, and trigger interpretive challenges.

#DesignErrands

Image: Paris, Avenue d'Italie, October 2024. Credit RC.
DesignErrands's tweet image. Traffic light for drone takeoff? Go/no go?

If your streetlamp is heavily inspired by traffic light design, it will inevitably be processed as some kind of traffic light, and trigger interpretive challenges.

#DesignErrands

Image: Paris, Avenue d'Italie, October 2024. Credit RC.

Home made solutions against AI based plate recognition. Illegal, of course. #DesignErrands #AdHoc #AI #LicensePlate Image: Paris, September 2004. Credit RC.

DesignErrands's tweet image. Home made solutions against AI based plate recognition. Illegal, of course.

#DesignErrands #AdHoc #AI #LicensePlate

Image: Paris, September 2004. Credit RC.

Very sensible arrangement: many surprising encounters ahead! #DesignErrands #Doors #Interiors #Wayfinding Image: ISEL, Le Havre, France, Septembre 2022. Credit RC.

DesignErrands's tweet image. Very sensible arrangement: many surprising encounters ahead!

#DesignErrands #Doors #Interiors #Wayfinding

Image: ISEL, Le Havre, France, Septembre 2022. Credit RC.

How big is the item? The solution: #DesignErrands #BadSignage

DesignErrands's tweet image. How big is the item?

The solution:

#DesignErrands #BadSignage
DesignErrands's tweet image. How big is the item?

The solution:

#DesignErrands #BadSignage

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