Metro pass surfaces
Posted: February 27th, 2008 | 2 Comments »To access the underground:
To recharge your card/pass:
(Seen in Paris last week)
Why do I blog this? I just wanted to point the size and color of the contact area (coherence and homogeneity). This big violet circle is intriguing and as you can see on the second picture there is a sort of “tail” maybe to facilitate the passing of the card/pass when moving. The tail allow the user not to stop to validate his/her card.
“Open the Metro entrance gate, Hal.”
“I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I cannot do that.”
Okay, but aside from my idiosyncratic 1960′s paranoia, it seems to work well: no label or instructions necessary. It looks like a sensor of some kind. I would’ve held my Metro card up to it.
Not really sure what I think of the Paris surfaces, they are rather blurry in shape…
BTW I’ve been collecting these for a while, tagging them “touch interface”:
http://flickr.com/photos/tags/touchinterface