[esquivalience]

This is Don Norman whose work led to the term a Norman Door. A push door which has a pullable handle on it tricks the user into thinking it's a pull door. Sure, you can just push it if you know; but good design should be intuitive without prior knowledge.

[sillywalk]

To clarify, it's named after him, it's what he is criticizing, but he didn't invent the Norman Door".