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      Over the past two weeks since taking CSC318 we've talked about a lot about interactive media and I've been noticing design implications of objects in my day to day life much more since I have been taking this course. Two things that really stood out to me is an implementation of a crosswalk and this water bottle at a Korean restaurant. These are examples of bad designs which I think could be drastically improved.       Pictured is the cross walk that I am talking about. Instead of being implemented as a normal crosswalk it's implemented so that the lights above flash yellow signalling the cars to stop for the passengers instead of flashing green yellow red. At first I didn't think much of the set up of the intersection until I tried to cross the road. If you position yourself at the street corners by the buttons you need to cross you cannot actually see if the lights are flashing or not. I think this poses a major inconvenience to the pedestrians as