What strikes me the most, because of my professional background, is how little shower designers think about the end user. This might be because the end user is not always the consumer. For instance, in the case of a hotel, the consumer is the asshole thinking loudly about how a picture of the shower will look in promotional pamphlets or on their official website. Such decision makers most definitely do not take showers in the bathrooms they finance.

What’s in the mind of the end user when they enter the shower? Many things, I guess, but most decisions to take a shower situations can be summed up in two situations:

1) “I need to take a shower because this is part of my daily routine.” Such people usually need to go fast, especially in a hotel, because they have much better things to do afterwards such as meeting a client or visiting your town. They don’t have so much time to waste in finding the sweet spot for temperature and flow.

2) “I want to relax.” Which is in direct conflict with struggling naked (and cold) with a shower tap that would take cryptographers more time to decipher than the Enigma machine.

This one is from a hotel in Paris. Thanks to S.N. for his contribution!