Opinion: The Olympic Slopestyle Women Deserve Better

Are you familiar with the concept of a “Norman Door?”

It’s a design concept, originally used to describe a door that’s confusing or difficult to use. Those push doors that you end up pulling. Nowadays, the term has extended to describe any design flaw that on the surface, makes the user look like they’re doing something wrong. More often than not though, it’s not user error, but rather, a design flaw.

This entire women’s slopestyle final was a giant, lingering Norman Door that will...