The person designing a public place is arranging some part of strangers’ daily dignity.

Where a bench goes, whether there is a lift, how far it is to a toilet: none of these are decorative questions. They decide who can spend an afternoon somewhere without planning it in advance, and who has to ask, wait, or be conspicuous. Design sets the terms on which people are allowed to be in public, and those terms are felt daily by whoever they were not written for.

If you have any say over a shared space, ask who currently needs permission or assistance to use it. Fix one of those. Nobody thanks you for it, which is a fair sign it worked.