Comments on: Products We Like: Evolve Showerheads http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/12/products-we-like-evolve-showerheads/ Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:14:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Geri Rude http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/12/products-we-like-evolve-showerheads/#comment-94 Geri Rude Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:25:55 +0000 http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/12/products-we-like-evolve-showerheads/#comment-94 It's' wonderful what you have designed; however, it's also important that you save the cold water from going down the drain. I was at my daughter's house which has well water. Her husband didn't seem to care since he said it only goes back into the earth. Nevertheless, is there a device which also allows a trickle for the cold water until it gets warm? How about a timing device? Water is a very precious commodity. When I hear of some people in the world that are forced to drink disease- infested water because that is all there is, it makes me deeply aware of how I use water where it is so plentiful. It’s’ wonderful what you have designed; however, it’s also important that you save the cold water from going down the drain. I was at my daughter’s house which has well water. Her husband didn’t seem to care since he said it only goes back into the earth. Nevertheless, is there a device which also allows a trickle for the cold water until it gets warm? How about a timing device? Water is a very precious commodity. When I hear of some people in the world that are forced to drink disease- infested water because that is all there is, it makes me deeply aware of how I use water where it is so plentiful.

]]> By: Mathew Sanders http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/12/products-we-like-evolve-showerheads/#comment-93 Mathew Sanders Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:02:44 +0000 http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/12/products-we-like-evolve-showerheads/#comment-93 Speaking of showerheads, the New Zealand based company Methven is pretty innovative in this space. A few years back they made a strategic decision to incorporate design into their business. They started by doing usability studies of how people shower - the first product from this research was the SaturnJet shower head which not only delivers a much more enjoyable shower experience (by how the water droplets are sprayed from the head) but also uses half the water of a conventional shower. They are also working on a detachable shower head that you take with you when you travel that has vitamin c inserts to nutralise the chlorine in water that dries your skin. Not sure if I would personally want to take a shower head on my travels - but an interesting company nonetheless! http://unlimited.co.nz/unlimited.nsf/default/8D97612DD9787D68CC2574C500706A1C Speaking of showerheads, the New Zealand based company Methven is pretty innovative in this space.

A few years back they made a strategic decision to incorporate design into their business. They started by doing usability studies of how people shower – the first product from this research was the SaturnJet shower head which not only delivers a much more enjoyable shower experience (by how the water droplets are sprayed from the head) but also uses half the water of a conventional shower.

They are also working on a detachable shower head that you take with you when you travel that has vitamin c inserts to nutralise the chlorine in water that dries your skin.

Not sure if I would personally want to take a shower head on my travels – but an interesting company nonetheless!

http://unlimited.co.nz/unlimited.nsf/default/8D97612DD9787D68CC2574C500706A1C

]]> By: Andrew http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/12/products-we-like-evolve-showerheads/#comment-92 Andrew Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:47:06 +0000 http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/12/products-we-like-evolve-showerheads/#comment-92 You can improve on this fancy showerhead technology with an $8 plastic bucket: Get a plastic bucket. Keep it in the bathroom. Fill the bucket with the warming water until it's hot enough to shower with. Use the bucket of water for anything you want, say, flushing the toilet. Zero water wasted. You can improve on this fancy showerhead technology with an $8 plastic bucket:

Get a plastic bucket. Keep it in the bathroom. Fill the bucket with the warming water until it’s hot enough to shower with. Use the bucket of water for anything you want, say, flushing the toilet. Zero water wasted.

]]> By: Steve Portigal http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/12/products-we-like-evolve-showerheads/#comment-91 Steve Portigal Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:56:10 +0000 http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/2008/12/products-we-like-evolve-showerheads/#comment-91 Glad you posted that, I've been thinking about it every time I step into the shower since seeing the Core77 post. It seems like a technical solution without enough insight into the behavioral adaptation people go through to deal with this. Do people simply put on the shower and wait until it's ready? Maybe they do; I don't have the data. My solution is usually to put on the hot water and wait til the pipes empty of cold water, and then adjust the temperature with the cold tap to something comfortable. And maybe everyone else has their own workaround (and mental model about where the water is, what is efficient, how it's heating up, etc.). In terms of eco-whatever, my solution fits my mental model and doesn't require me to purchase a new piece of plastic (or throw away the old one). If my solution works as well as theirs, perhaps there is an even more low-impact way to educate, inform, create mental models and give people more control through their actions alone. Glad you posted that, I’ve been thinking about it every time I step into the shower since seeing the Core77 post.

It seems like a technical solution without enough insight into the behavioral adaptation people go through to deal with this.

Do people simply put on the shower and wait until it’s ready? Maybe they do; I don’t have the data. My solution is usually to put on the hot water and wait til the pipes empty of cold water, and then adjust the temperature with the cold tap to something comfortable. And maybe everyone else has their own workaround (and mental model about where the water is, what is efficient, how it’s heating up, etc.). In terms of eco-whatever, my solution fits my mental model and doesn’t require me to purchase a new piece of plastic (or throw away the old one).

If my solution works as well as theirs, perhaps there is an even more low-impact way to educate, inform, create mental models and give people more control through their actions alone.

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