elfs | Whoa. Poor industrial affordance at Disneyland? (Reply)

Low Affordance

Astonishingly, I did spot one moment of less than excellent design: the trash cans. While, yes, everyone knows how to use a trash can, the degree of that assumption is strong in the design of the trash-can ingress.

If I had been designing the trash can, I would have molded the lids just a little bit, with a large descending plane sloping inward, and small, maybe two-inch ascending plane on the bottom to meet the descender. This would have helped communicate "push here," while reassuring the user that his hands were unlikely to slip and touch the interior of the receptacle. Not that Disney has much trouble with littering, but it would have been one more touch of perfection.