Being a student of software, I am often critical of the general design of everyday things. Not only in the negative sense, but also in the positive. However, the negative ones tend to be glaringly obvious.

Take a local mall parking lot for example. A parking lot should not depend solely on the good nature of Canadian motorists. If they only followed right-of-way rules, none of the cars off the main roads would be able to get around. When push comes to shove and people just want to get out of there, no one can move because people are just following "the rules of the road". And don't even get me started on the one-way streets.

Now, I can understand maybe the developers wanted to create more of a "community" look to this mini mall, but all they did was make it more cluttered and messy. I went there on a Sunday, the second-busiest day of the WEEK, nevermind the year. I'd hate to be there any day in December.

A lot can be said for a simple square parking lot with rows of cars. Sometimes it's best to just Keep It Simple, Smartguy and leave your artsy charcoal in your pocket.