Designers cry quietly

Pretty sure the user experience folk are screaming for a path to be built there but are getting ignored.

They aren't being ignored. The corner needs to be a right angle for compliance reasons.
- But the actual corner isn't even a right angled corner.
- What we should do is put chainlink fence around the corner, but make the part that the users loved the most accessible with a monthly pass that they can only walk on with shoes purchased at the university store.
  
  - spez
It's important we do it that way for our 🌟brand identity🌟.
How about a pond?
Management wants us to add more AI and Machine Learning so the user ends up in the parking lot.

A lot of universities with large campus grounds take the approach of observing the natural foot traffic wear patterns on grassy areas, and then build walkways where the most worn down parts are.

Its... pretty obvious.

If everyone is taking an alternate, non designed path... your design sucks, modify it to facilitate what people find more effective.

These are apparently called “Desire Paths”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path
- And there's a whole community for them! Not sure how to link to it though.
iirc it's what they did in central park. Don't create paths and later pave the desire paths that show up
They did this in a park by my house. It used to have a long paved path that meandered through some woods. Engineers with the city noticed the shortcut that people were cutting through, and realized that most people didn't care for the long path. Apparently some anonymous person or several had been dumping gravel along the shortcut for traction and to make it less muddy. So the city paved the shortcut, and removed the long path so that nature would reclaim it.

Democracy in action.

It was kind of sad though to lose the long path because I liked walking through there, especially during the fall, but if it means having less maintenance machines going in there every week to pollute the place (lawnmowers, asphalt patching, etc) then so be it.
Don’t underestimate youthful rebellion!
It is not design issue but not well behaved people. It is like saying that the trash can isn't a good design because people are throwing trash on the street. You don't path like that in countries with people that respect rules.
- People throwing thrash on the way usually is a sign of not enough trash cans in an area.
  
  Yes of course there are always a few assholes who just waste, but in general you can go by that rule.
- Who is protected by rules that keep you on the path? Who am I impressing by taking the ten seconds out of my day to stay on the pavement?
  
  I don't have much respect for grass. Take the shortcut and relish the rare opportunity to be near nature in the city
- Where do you see frequent trash cans and people regularly throwing trash out in the street?
  
  Typically trash in the street means you don't have enough trash cans, or a bunch of youth or homeless people whom society is failing.
- No,

Whenever that happens, the design is wrong.

Fixed. Added a wall with razor wire on top to prevent this.
- Ah yes, the hostile architecture approach.
change log: We've adjusted the 20 year old UI to better reflect modern aesthetic trends that our new hires learned in school.
Works as intended. kthxbye
I think it's from the time where things were done manually and round lines were a pain to draw. There wasn't AutoCAD and undo features in a neat software 🤣

Should include a concept to reduce impervious surfaces in modern times. User experience is not the only variable.

Designers need to wake up and realize their job is to understand what the user wants not what they saw in a wet dream.

Not a universal rule, however. Theres the whole concept of "optimizing yourself out of the fun" and what not in video games. Or the hardships being part of what makes a game fulfilling. It depends on what your goal is
Wake up Nee-Oh!

I, unfortunately, have to use GitHub at $DAYJOB and this is me. I navigate most of the webpage via the URL bar now.

Basically, let's say I'm working on a repo github.com/tomato/sauce/ and want to navigate to the Releases page.

Via the webpage:

Type github.com into the URL bar.
Don't find tomato/sauce/ in the list of recent repos, even though it's the only repo I work on.
Click on some other repo that's at least in the tomato/ org.
Navigate up to the tomato/ org.
Find the sauce/ repo in the list.
Traverse half the fucking screen to hit the "Releases" heading in the middle of the About-section.

Via the Firefox URL bar:

Type gi→t→s→r→.
Hit Enter.

I admit, it's hard to compete with the latter, but I wouldn't know how to navigate that way, if the former wasn't so terrible.

What kind of sicko try to find their repos from the recent list on the main page??
Hopefully somebody else $DAYJOBs at GitHub and will see this.
This is me, but with my work's Azure DevOps. Nice to meet a fellow auto-complete bro.

"What the user needed" / "What management demanded"

!desire_paths@sh.itjust.works

This is called a "desire path." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path

What the shit happened to that tree's shadow?

Probably the tree is shadowing the same area that a window in or near the building the picture is being taken from is illuminating.
Also, why is this shadow off from the others
- that's just perspective, they're only parallel when looking for a perfectly top-down angle
- maybe it's a slope
The tree on the right has that block missing in its shadow, the trees on the left are casting their shadows in a slightly different direction, and they guy on the dirt path's shadow seems too dark and clear. Once you pointed out something was wrong, it's hard not to see other mistakes.
- We are so paranoid about Photoshop and lately AI that we start seeing mistakes where there are none. All these things are perfectly normal.
- The sun is fairly low in the sky, just a bit to the right of the guy on the dirt path, whose shadow is almost but not quite straight vertical.
  
  The guy casts a darker and more crisp, or less diffuse shadow because he is less translucent, or more opaque, than tree leaves, and because the total distance from the heighest tree leaves to the ground is greater than the total distance from his head to the ground.
  
  The lines of the tree trunk and lamppost shadows all converge toward where the sun is, if extended toward it.
  
  The illuminated square in the one tree's shadow is likely a reflection from a window or some kind of metal fixture from a building or object behind the pov of the camera.
Could be a watermark that got removed.

That’s right, it goes in the square hole.

Uhh, so looking carefully at the picture, it appears they shouldn't have bothered with the inner pathway at all, and should have just connected the bridge over the canal (?) in the background to whatever is under the camera.

Not only does the current design fail to provide a short path in demand, it leaves a goofy little boulevard behind the benches in what appears to be a dense, desirable urban area where you shouldn't waste space.

That's ancient.

Needs more plants.

This is an opportunity with creative landscaping.