• Pommes_für_dein_Balg@feddit.orgEnglish
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    20 days ago

    That’s just bad design, not hostile.
    Hostile sink design can be found at Frankfurt airport, where only hot water comes out of the tap, to get people to buy water bottles for 5€ if they want to drink it.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Yeah, hostile design (or “hostile architecture,” which is the more searchable term) is like IRL enshittification: it’s not just when it’s bad, it’s when it’s intentionally bad in order to serve some goal other than fulfilling the needs of the user.

      The most common example is a bench with an armrest in the middle so that homeless people can’t (easily/comfortably) sleep on it.