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Wait a while till peace returns. Then heat things up again by posing the following:
Men | Women |
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Men navigate using a combination of direction and distance. The exact route is less important. | Women navigate along a list of points of recognition. |
140 km south-east-southis a perfect route description to a man. |
Left at the flower shopis a perfect part of a route description to a woman. |
A man looks for a road that matches the direction. To a man a map with unreadable characters is still usable. | Woman look on a map for points of recognition, read text. They look for names of streets, exits, junctions. A woman will discard a map with unreadable characters as useless. |
One way streets, dead ends, blocking poles, rivers are nuisances to men. This obstructions force a detour that deviates from the desired direction. | Detours, roadwork are disorienting for women, a confusing disrupting the sequence of points of recognition. |
To men, maps are a smaller verision of reality. A man uses a map to find a route that matches the direction. | Maps lack points of recognition for women. The flower shop is not shown. There is no clear sequence of points. A map is troublesome to women. |
Now, a design that follows this train of thought: A map for driving from Gouda to Heijen.
A12 | A2 | E31 | N264 | N271 | ||||||||||||
Gouda | Utrecht | Intersection Deil | Exit 5 | Gennep | Heijen |
A12 | A2 | E31 | E31 | E31 | E31 | N264 | N271 | |||||||||
Gouda | Intersection Oudenrein right |
Intersection Deil right |
Intersection Valburg right |
Intersection Ewijk right |
Intersection Neerbosch right |
Exit 5 left |
After bridge right |
Heijen |