Elevator button bar: doors, do not rush to close

I deal with interfaces and love to notice the details that surround us. Especially those that can be done better.

You know, I would like to start with the innermost. I want to share the fear of pressing the buttons in the elevator! No, not all. Only two of them, to which the pictograms seem to me, at least, are strange.



If you already understood what I mean, then nod softly.

And now a case from life. Shopping center. An elevator, inside which there are already a lot of people, but there is still a place. I go last and find myself next to the panel. The elevator doors are on the verge of closing, and I see a running man who really wants to jump onto the “running board of a moving train”. I understand that the whole situation is in my hands. I stare at these two buttons, mechanically raise my hand to make this important push, but ... I don’t know how to help a person! I hang. Before my eyes I have a total of 4 triangles in two pictograms. My brain begins to analyze the situation: which triangles should I choose in order to save a person from “massage” with elevator doors.

Those that are turned inward? Or out? While the precious milliseconds go into the analysis of the situation, of course, the person is between the doors of the elevator, which work safely at the opening. A man manages to enter the cockpit, and it only remains for me to lower my gaze to the floor.

By the way, except for jokes, but once in a similar situation after a similar “lag” in the elevator, I even apologized and made a remark to a third party that some developers have their hands clearly not growing from the right place.

Probably, the industry is not keeping pace with the familiar to us, users, pictograms that accompany us every day on mobile devices. Or is it a very expensive process - “rebranding” of only two icons on the elevator control panel.

Honestly, I would be happy to see on her such familiar two characters ...



The logic is elementary and understandable: the check - "everything is fine, let's go", the cross - "something went wrong, cancel the door." And the pictograms are visually different, which is an advantage.

A little elementary visualization in the form of a draft version: The



maximum effect can be achieved by introducing colors and an explanatory pictogram:



And the end result:



Or in this version:



I would be happy to save people from “attacking” with doors in such elevators. And what do you think?

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