I once worked in an office building that had two lights outside each elevator car to tell you which direction the car was going. They were color-coded, which was fine I suppose. Red for up and white for down made sense to someone somewhere.

The lights were just little round things, not arrows or anything. And they were side-by-side.

The building housed many goverment offices, so visitors were frequent. I don't think I ever had an elevator trip without SOMEONE who was going the wrong direction. Don Norman would have had a field day! <g>


>I used to live in an apartment complex. There were 3 floors in my building with an elevator. I was on the 2nd and usually took the stairs, except for when I was going bike riding. There was no visual way to tell if the elevator was going up or down, so I got on at the 2nd floor and went up frequently.
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>50% of the time, when the doors opened up on the 3rd floor, someone would ask if we were going down. I had to try it one time, so my response was, "sorry, we're going to the 7th floor". The people just stood there and let the doors close.
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>>>In the VFP Zone someone posted "this might be a stupid question, but..." and of course everyone says, to encourage the OP, "there are no stupid questions."
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>>>Well.....
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>>>I work in a hospital. We have lots of staff who know the place well, and lots of visitors who get lost easily, as well as being stressed about why they're here. Most everyone here in the hospital uses two elevators (lifts) to get to their work area, so we are all well versed in elevator etiquitte. S