A lot of universities with large campus grounds take the approach of observing the natural foot traffic wear patterns on grassy areas, and then build walkways where the most worn down parts are.
Its… pretty obvious.
If everyone is taking an alternate, non designed path… your design sucks, modify it to facilitate what people find more effective.
These are apparently called “Desire Paths”
And there’s a whole community for them! Not sure how to link to it though.
Just give the URL, I’ll do a federated link for you.
Literally just put it in that way, for future notice - there’s no hidden formatting here.
Same for users — just change the ! to an @.
Example: @[email protected]
Pretty sure the user experience folk are screaming for a path to be built there but are getting ignored.
They aren’t being ignored. The corner needs to be a right angle for compliance reasons.
But the actual corner isn’t even a right angled corner.
They were forced to cut corners in implementation.
