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To everybody acting like the desire path is the problem:
Today, I’m astonished to learn about the existence of anti-desire path people based on the comments here
I wanted to say that surely nobody is complaining about desire paths and then I scrolled just a little bit... yikes!
Seriously. The rabidly boot licking deference obedience and weird conflation if the constructed with the natural/universal is like the worst thing we get from the mostly-christian (anti)intellectual tradition.
These people are not fit to be adults in a built environment. Their states if mind should not be allowed in a world with such feats of artifice as concrete and movable type.
Ok being real dude, I don't think this behavior is a product of "mostly-christian (anti)intellectual tradition," it's just the type of people who never grew out of the color-in-the-lines and follow-your-line-buddy stuff from grade school. I don't think there's any spectacular political statement to be made here.
I'll accept that the corellation is higher up the cognitive chain than that. You may be correct. There's still a political statement here, but that one may have been off the mark.
Not that I have a particular problem with desire paths, but what's shown in the comic here is an example of how the design changed to take into account how people are interacting with it, and yet it didn't work out.
right, it was changed specifically to deny the most popular use. so thats why it doesnt work.
It didn't work out because the design didn't change, it was reinforced. Each attempt failed because there was no actual effort to understand why it's not working. Like wraping a leaky rusted pipe in ducktape.
Um. You did notice panel 10 - 12, right?
Yes? The new path is there because it's still shorter, people don't walk in straight lines and sharp angles. That design is still lazy and not thought out
I mean what is a "thought out" path, besides just saying fuck it and paving whole plot. I mean maybe a funnel or something, but again kind of seems likely that we'd wind up with more desire paths forming just differently, maybe people coming from different starting points etc...
The only time where the design actually changed, the designer made the point of moving the path away from whhere the desire path was pointing.
That comic captures it so incredibly well. It's almost perfect.
Yeah, that person you replied to missed the point entirely, and all the people who up-voted them.
Oh. What is the point then? /gen
For me, it was heavy on the "you can't please everyone" aspect. You try and try, first at enforcing the solution you thought was best, but people have their own problems and their own agenda. Then you try to accommodate that. But you'll find that there's always someone whom you can't please.
That was my personal take-away.