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There’s one example that I find best and unfortunately timeless since I’ve read The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman.

These are doors, or specifically the handles, and the “push and pull” dilemma.

I’m sure that you know this feeling when you push instead of pull or the other way round. SHAME.

That’s especially funny when you acknowledge that the solution to this problem is so simple:

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