[Design] Bad design: Lausanne’s public transport

Posted: December 14th, 2004 | 3 Comments »

This morning, I was amazed by the new design of the Lausanne Public Transport vending machines. Instead of putting a map with names of the different places (the most common way to give a global representation of space), they put a list of names (bus/metro stops) in alphabetical order. This limits travel hack (like you know the area where you’re heading but not the place’s name). Besides, our university has 3 or 4 stops but they did not put the name of the university, they just put the names of the stops!

3 Comments on “[Design] Bad design: Lausanne’s public transport”

  1. 1 yves said at 5:56 pm on December 14th, 2004:

    bien envoye! j’ai eu le meme sentiment, leur design est tellement mauvais que tu as mal a la tete avant meme de commencer a lire… en comparaison, et avec l’aide d’un ergonome, les TPG ont fait bcp mieux (essaie de photographier leur machine).

  2. 2 Timtom said at 5:08 pm on December 16th, 2004:

    Hm, some encoding problems, here.

  3. 3 7.5th Floor » Blog Archive » Visitors Interaction with a City said at 4:22 pm on August 21st, 2007:

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