What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
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What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
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Re: What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
#2I’ve never seen a less mobile-friendly layout. Fixed decorative elements on the page forcefully covering content.
Re: What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
#3I had to go look up pictures of actual bikes to confirm what (I think) is wrong with the lead picture.
I also wonder how I would have done in the blind.
Re: What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
#4In Firefox I had to go to readability mode for it to see, but the idea and execution is great!
Reminds me of the company that creates dolls how you design them: https://www.childsown.com/
Re: What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
#5Heh, when I was a kid I used to draw a lot, and I remember being bothered that I didn't know how to draw a bike, so back then I explicitly memorized the shapes (parallelogram in the back, and another line for the front wheels). Wonder if that's common for doodlers.
Re: What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
#6I had to go look up pictures of actual bikes to confirm what (I think) is wrong with the lead picture. I also wonder how I would have done in the blind.
After looking at all of those pictures, I did a Google image search for "bicycle", and now I think I'm experiencing the visual equivalent of semantic satiation. None of these images look correct...
Re: What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
#7Drawing and painting is almost entirely a visual skill. The mechanical skills of wielding a pencil or mixing paint are almost trivial; the hard part is being able to see what's actually there.
A bicycle is an incredibly simple visual form. You can doodle one in about five seconds. They're not rare or unusual objects and they're relatively homogenous. Nonetheless, most people have never actually seen a bicycle. They've looked, but they haven't understood its form, they haven't decomposed it into lines and shapes. They know that it has two wheels, a chain, a saddle and some handlebars, but they've never actually noticed the shapes that join them together.
https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Right-Side-Brain-Definitive/d...
Re: What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
#8I had to go look up pictures of actual bikes to confirm what (I think) is wrong with the lead picture. I also wonder how I would have done in the blind.
For any still not seeing it: The chain stay from the bottom bracket is missing. The rear wheel should be held by a triangular arrangement of the frame, but the side of the triangle that runs parallel to the ground isn’t there
Re: What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
#9It would be interesting to split the respondents into two groups, one who rides bikes regularly and one who doesn't, and compare the results.
The "2WD" ones are particularly perplexing.
On the other hand, I bet if you asked people to draw a car, 99% of them would draw something realistic --- it's the arrangement of the frame tubes on a bike that most people just haven't looked at in detail or remembered.
Re: What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
#10I think this is a great example that shows how our brains remember/recognize things. (Which may be help in machine learning)
This is how people have remembered a bike.
2 wheels, spaced apart Metal connecting Pedal in the middle Seat on top Handlebars connected to the front wheel.
The details of how it's connected, where, spacing, etc. Isn't really noted by our brains unless they see/use them often.
I wonder if this exercise could help use fine tune ML patterns.