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[paulmorris-uxdi]

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[dwilliamhood]

by Cassandra Moore

Have you ever been standing in an elevator waiting for the doors to close when someone down the hall calls out “hold the elevator?” What did you do? If you’re like most of us, you stuck your hand between the doors, risking life (well, maybe just limb) to keep the doors open. Why do we do this? We know there’s a Door Open button but we rarely use it. Why not?

The Door Open button doesn’t capture our attention; if we tried to find it to help the guy running down the hall, we’d be three floors down by the time we located it. Typically, the Door Open button is the same color, size, and shape as every other button, and its icon is similar to the Door Close button.

The one button that needs to be found quickly doesn’t pop out from the rest. Whoever designed the elevator buttons evidently wasn’t thinking about with human attention and what makes one thing more salient than another.

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