Vincent Gable’s Blog

April 5, 2008

A Better Left and Right

Filed under: Accessibility,Tips,Usability
― Vincent Gable on April 5, 2008

Some people get very confused with right and left when driving (“Turn left here. No, the other left!”) I knew a girl who wrote “left” and “right” on the ends of her windshield with a sharpie, and it worked well for her.

Another solution is to use concrete terms, instead of abstract terms:
“Turn left” is “Driver-side turn”
“Turn right” is “Passenger-side turn”

Sailors have been using the concrete terms “port” and “starboard” for centuries, for the same reasons.

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