So I am supposed to get a digital camera, take some pictures and capture user reactions for this assignment. Nope, no pictures here. Well, at least not for now. All you get is the following little graphic I came up with to represent what I am about to blog about…
There’s this nice little cafe near Clarke Quay train station where everything about it from the food to the service is excellent save the small and not-friendly toilets (Refer to the picture above). No photos here since I have not been back at the cafe for the past week and I don’t have archived shots of the cafe’s toilet.
Bad design I say, and testified by most of my friends who have also visited the cafe. Here’s a step-by-step process on how to use this particular toilet cubicle:
- Push the door so that it swings to its maximum range, which really is a limited range, as it is blocked by the toilet seat
- Enter the cubicle to position X, and pray you are of a small build and thin for if you are anything otherwise, it is going to get really uncomfortable
- Unless you possess telekinesis or like to close toilet doors with your back facing them, make a 180-degree turn at position X (Told you it would get a bit uncomfortable)
- Stretch out your hand, swing the door so that you get space to stand in between the seat and the door
- Close the door and lock it
Well, to get out, do the exact opposite of the above 5 steps in the reverse order (The English is not clear here but you should get what I mean).
Well, Qian Hao and his friend, Jaron, like me find the above-mentioned toilet cubicle design a very bad one indeed. We love this cafe, we really really really do, but the toilet design is bad. Period.
The cafe has 2 of such toilet cubicles built for the use of both genders. The cubicle is too small and awkward. I say let the door enjoy a greater swing and give more space between the swung door and the seat so that we don’t have to stay rooted at one tiny spot to make turns to close the door!
