June 4, 2009

UIA(Usability in Action) Sighting: Urinals???


Ok.....how are you going to link urinals to usability? I know you must be wondering. First I see usability directly linked with sustainability. (I will explain this in a later blog.) One of the foundations of sustainabilty is learning to work with ones environment.

I realized today that urinals are a part of sustainabulity. If the mens room had all toilets like the woman bathroom. It would be a waste of water. To do a "number 1" does not need as much water as a "number 2." So urinals were created not just for this reason, but for convience and saving money. These factors together are a strong force in pushing sustainability and usability.

So the existence of urinals is a demonstration that sustainability and usability existed a long time before we ever came up with the terms.

Understanding how urinals are in almost all mens bathrooms across the nation is a power which both need to tap in to.

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