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90 points

Seriously though, one of my biggest pet peeves is when they get every other aspect of touch-less design correct, and then fail with the door.

#designfails

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The best design is no door. You walk in and around a corner / wall… Think airport.

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Given that it has a blow dryer instead of paper towels I doubt the door handle is an issue

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My understanding (which may be false) is that this can come about from competing design considerations and regulations. Like… It’s ideal to be able to push the door open from the inside of the bathroom so you don’t have to touch a nasty doorhandle, but you also don’t want somebody to be able to put something in front of the door, potentially trapping you in the bathroom (particularly in the event of a fire… Dying in a fire is probably worse than touching a nasty doorhandle), and you also don’t want doors to unexpectedly swing open into busy hallways. This drives me nuts too, though.

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In some restaurants I’ve seen double swing doors on the toilet entrance.

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A handle you can hook your arm around would solve this.

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Eh, there’s an easy solution that a lot of places are starting to use. A foot pull. Probably costs $5-10. No real excuse for any place not installing these.

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I mean hell yes I’m for this. Just the obvious solution of “make it push” might not work.

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How about a door that swings both way

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Potentially an issue of smacking people in a busy hallway.

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Touchless booth door but then its occupancy detector is faulty ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡ °)

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Don’t think you need it that much. You’re going to wash your hands after. There’s a small chance you could contract something before using the bathroom from it, unsure on the likelihood of that transmission.

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Or when the soap dispenser is touchless but not the tap.

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As long as there’s paper towels you can lather, wash, dry with a clean paper towel, and then use that to turn off the faucet/open the door without touching them. It sounds germophobic, but it really is the best way for us to use public restrooms and protect each others’ health.

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That’s solved with getting extra soap, scrubbing the tap, rinsing the tap with water when you rinse your hands.

The door thing is still the biggest

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