Why do people keep getting confused by our map?

a year ago by The Picard Maneuver to c/facepalm

groolthedemon 61 points a year ago

This is....Madness

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LifeInMultipleChoice 17 points a year ago

I'm just glad this wasn't on mildly infuriating because if I had to work/discuss this with people coming onto the property I'd be demanding it be re-did immediately. Use fucking letters if we have to. ANYTHING. Colors colorblind people are good with, anything is better

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Carvex 4 points a year ago

Madness? This is Sparta!...'s confusing map of the hospitals buildings when you're trying to find the ER.

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A_norny_mousse 26 points a year ago

Assuming this wasn't shopped for the internet, I see only two options here:

some very weird game of administrative telephone led to this (not saying it makes sense, still speaks poorly of whoever was behind it, but it is an option)
somebody did this on purpose for various nefarious reasons: driving the business into the ground, watching gleefully as tourists and staff alike lose their minds etc.

There is no third option. (Proving me wrong in 4...3...2...1...)

I came up with another one!

They changed the numbers of the actual buildings around but were too lazy/stingy to update the graphics and so just made a legend.

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Im_old 19 points a year ago

Never exclude sheer incompetence or stupidity

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Draegur 9 points a year ago

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

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Skellysgirl 5 points a year ago

Was a designer. You would be surprised how many times people want something how they want it. You can tell them that it does not make sense/is not visually presented information/is simply not designed…they just want to tell you how they want it and your job is to execute it. They also tend to love it afterwards. They usually believe they know better or are so focused on admin/following a line they can’t see sense…or nonsense in this case.

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0x0 3 points a year ago

Reminds me of the time that a customer wanted square boxes and checkmarks in a web form, but only one was supposed to be selectable. I was like, this already exists — it's called radio buttons. But they just had to be checkboxes for some reason.

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Schmoo 3 points a year ago

Then you just use radio buttons under the hood and override the appearance with CSS.

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0x0 3 points a year ago

This was circa 2010, and we didn't have CSS appearance property yet. It wasn't that much work, but I'd say it was non-trivial and I found it super annoying that I was going out of my way to make a UI that doesn't work the way users expect.

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aesthelete 16 points a year ago

In my HOA the light in front of our house was never getting fixed, turned out they had a similar reference system as this building number system but for the lights. The contractors went to the wrong light, saw it working and closed the ticket.

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Deconceptualist 11 points a year ago

Ok, I fixed it.

https://imgur.com/a/fEPGSE3

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Dicska 3 points a year ago

I love the psychedelic amount of JPEG around the green text in the legend.

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Godnroc 11 points a year ago

The only way I can justify this is if someone is supposed to walk clockwise through the buildings and they were all built at different times.

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DarkSirrush 7 points a year ago

Look again at the legend for the map

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Godnroc 1 point a year ago

Aye, I saw it. If you assume that building 1 was the first built, then 2 and 3 were added afterwards so they were numbered from left to right, and finally building 4 was built last behind everything else the building numbers are fine.

If you assume the legend was for the order to visit the buildings in, starting at number four (the newest, perhaps with a meeting space in it), then move clockwise until all the buildings have been visited you would walk in 4, 3, 1 2 order.

Without that context of visiting the buildings clockwise, the legend seems insane and disjointed. With it, well it's not much better but at least I can see why it happened.

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merrickal 8 points a year ago

I’m starting to understand why some people name their buildings.

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Ithorian 6 points a year ago

i get anxious looking at this shit

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jaybone 6 points a year ago

Is Lennox team the thermostat people who just fucked up my thermostat app? I hope their retreat sucks.

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sp3ctr4l 5 points a year ago

Well that is a Legendarily bad Legend and map, at least.

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piefood 4 points a year ago

This is how Past-Me documents his code. That guy is such an asshole

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