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11 Reasons Why Valet Stands Are Better for Clothes Than the Floor
Great article Ms Dansky!
These are wonderful, useful objects - probably a blast to design too! I know for myself and others like me, a valet stand in my apartment would inevitably accumulate worn-but-not-dirty clothes until it looked like a sad sad pack mule about to keel over...
Love core77, and the great work you all do, but struggling with the seemingly recent push to use "end users" everywhere. I get that there are end users for these products, but why the push to use that term? Seems so impersonal, especially for a field that should be all about considering people and wanting them to connect with your work. Even "users" seems slightly better. I'd be curious to know your thoughts around this.
John, I'm not sure what "push" you're referring to, and "end users" is pretty common parlance for both industrial designers and within design education. I believe we borrowed the term from the field of information technology or early computer programming; it's meant to signify the person you are designing the object to serve, that far-off being at the end of the manufacturing process who expects a finished product that they can easily use.
As for your suggestion of "users," I find that bizarre; that's a colloquial abbreviation for "drug users" and I can't see how it makes sense here.
Going back to the infotech stuff, they used to say "users" to refer to people who were different from "end users," in that the former laid hands on the unfinished product in order to modify or tweak it, which is not at all the goal with finished physical products.