David Sucher shares some some thoughts on Seattle’s new library. I haven’t seen it in person yet, so I’ll withhold my judgement. But this seems like an important observation:
the Library is not at all intuitive i.e. as a new user one does not sense naturally and comfortably how the building is organized. You know how it is in a restaurant? You can always know (if the place is designed typically) where to find the wash rooms? That’s what I call intuitive design — there are enough queues and clues so that one knows how to use the space without ever having been there before. The Seattle Public Library is not, to my senses, like that at all.
