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People don’t read instructions

Ever since I started working in a museum 7 years ago I’ve become increasingly aware that people are not that good at taking written instructions. Signs to closed areas, the bathrooms, ticket booths, what have you. Sometimes I’d ask myself and my colleagues whether there might be something wrong with the signs? The lettertype. The placement.

And sometimes there is. But sometimes people simply don’t read.

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