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Say what you will about the founder and the fact that their stores are hellscapes literally designed to be disorienting so you get lost and spend more time there, but they're A+++ at bags
Don't forget that every bit of timber they use (used?) comes courtesy of an agreement with none other than Nicolae Ceaușescu.
I never understand how people find IKEA stores hard to navigate. They have one (winding but) linear path going through everything and shortcuts at several points so you can skip stuff. There's signage that explains the whole thing. And you can order stuff for pickup so you don't even have to ever the store itself.
How do people manage to get lost in there?
They do try to manipulate you into eating there by piping air from the restaurant everywhere, though.
Congratulations on having good sense of direction and little ability to understand different perspectives, I guess 🤷🏻
Translation to poor sense of direction: arbitrary restrictions combined with several possibilities for wrong turns. Basically the worst of both worlds.
Which is usually incomplete, confusing, or both.
That part's true, but by definition irrelevant to the deliberately confusing layout of the stores themselves. Being skippable doesn't make THEM better.
Easily. In fact, that's the ONLY thing that's easy in an IKEA store for people who don't have the navigational skills of a champion at orienteering.
That might be a great sport for you if you're also a decent to great runner btw.
Perhaps it's a mental model thing. My sense of direction is... serviceable but not amazing. But I find IKEA stores to be easy to navigate because in the end it's a simple network of numbered sections. (For the comp sci people, it's a directed acyclic graph.)
In a hypothetical store, you can move from sections 1 to 14 in order but there's also direct connections between 1 → 7, 1 → 14, and 3 → 10. There are no other options besides walking around inside a section.
From that perspective I find it easy to navigate because there really aren't many relevant options.
Maybe people like you simply don't perceive the layout on this abstract level but instead see one giant unstructured room with many little pathways. You could try to make yourself more aware of the store's structure, see if that helps.
I went to the one in Portland and I could feel the top floor moving and it made me queasy. I was not thrilled.