User Experience of Japanese Toilets
25Aug09
- How do you flush?
On a recent visit to Tokyo I was amazed at how fluid the user experience of everything from trains to restaurants is. It seems that whenever you have a question, they have already thought of the answer.
One thing that drove me up the wall though after spending 10 min in a toilet, was: “Where is the flush?”
You can water you behind and/or front at different speeds, with sounds (several volumes), have a nice smelling perfume etc…
But the flush? Sometimes difficult to find, sometimes automatic when you stand up.
I love domotica, but you can get too far….
Filed under: Interaction Design, Interaction Designer, User Experience, User Interface | 3 Comments
Tags: domotica, tokyo, User Experience, User Interface, user interface designer
Wow! I love the ‘but-spray’icon!
What does the ‘powerful deodorizer’ do?
…make it smell like cheap toilet spray so everybody knows you did a massive one.
Lol
I had the same problem in South Korea few years ago. I can’t remember how I solved the problem though…
Maybe they should implement a graceful degradation to analog flush and not assume that everybody can use the latest installed toilet version
Cheers.