[Sigia-l] Counterintuitive

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One of the more difficult things to accomplish in client education is
demonstrating counterintuitive notions like how less info often leads to
better comprehension/retention/etc.

Here's a brilliant example from traffic-flow design:

To make communities safer and more appealing, Mr. Monderman argues, you
should first remove the traditional paraphernalia of their roads - the
traffic lights and speed signs; the signs exhorting drivers to stop, slow
down and merge; the center lines separating lanes from one another; even the
speed bumps, speed-limit signs, bicycle lanes and pedestrian crossings. In
his view, it is only when the road is made more dangerous, when drivers stop
looking at signs and start looking at other people, that driving becomes
safer.

A Path to Road Safety With No Signposts
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/22/international/europe/22monderman.html>

Anyone from Drachten, Netherlands with actual experience here?

Ziya
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