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Desire Paths & Design

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Desire Paths & Design

On UX, Flâneuring, and Mimetic Desire

Luke Burgis
Nov 11, 2020
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Desire paths. You've seen them. You may have made some. There's a fascinating subreddit devoted to sharing pictures of them: “Dedicated to the paths that humans prefer, rather than the paths that humans create.”

The indubitable Jim O’Shaughnessy (who has an excellent podcast called Infinite Loops) shared this interesting anecdote with me on Twitter:

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