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Design, Over Design

Elevator features (top of photo) originally designed for elevator attendants: knowing what floors have people waiting; and knowing the relative position of the other floors. Elevator attendants have largely but not completely disappeared from Japanese retail environments - seeing this makes me wonder to what extent their behaviours were a reaction to what the other elevator attendants where doing.

Writing from Tokyo | July 27, 2006 | Permalink