Positive: positive expression for restrictive message
Context: The yellow flyer states "We welcome credit cards for 5,000 KRW or above purchase" where the sales person could have said "We don't take credit cards below 5,000 KRW." I thought that this is a smart approach to turn a negative message to positive.
Positive: simple but intuitively understandable
Lesson: symbolize things if they are common to users
Issue: both signages have the same direction (redundancy)
Context: The signage on the left and right both included opposite end destinations. If you are a first time visitor for this station following colors and station names, you will stop and wonder at least once at the signage to make sure you're heading down to the correct path. This is unnecessary because choosing either path will lead to the same second floor of this subway basement. Passengers don't need to stop here and spend time to choose directions but stop on the second floor of the basement because redundancy means inefficiency which leads to wasting people's precious time.
Recommendation: if two directions on signages are the same, delete both directions and leave them empty to avoid confusion and unnecessary time for passengers to stop to figure out which one goes where
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