QR codes are not meant for humans to read, they are meant for machines to read. Why do they want to make QR codes round or make them heart-shaped when they could just embrace the brutalist geometric QR code?

  • aubeynarf@lemmynsfw.com
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    3 hours ago

    What I enjoy thinking about is the futility of a QR code on an Interstate billboard or in the last 5 seconds of a TV spot.

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      2 hours ago

      I get that adding a QR code adds a tracking/metrics component to an organizations resources but as a user it pisses me off. Just put a human-readable URL there so I know what to do. I can remember www.poblanopete.com easier than I scan and load a page on my phone.

      My town has a poster downtown that says “Scan here to see a map of this downtown area”. WTF? Why not just put a fucking map there with an arrow that says “You are here?”. It at least makes me laugh every time I see it.

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      Hell yeah! Or how about menus that have to be scanned to be readable?