As a modestly tall guy, using a short urinal is a bad experience. It's almost impossible to control splash, and the large attack angle makes the target area appear very small. And I'm not even that tall.
Viva the high urinal
Viva the high urinal
Splashback is too often ignored by urinal manufacturers. The angles of surfaces should direct all streams and all splashes toward the drain. When you have a perfectly flat back, the user has to stand further away, which enables direct drip onto the floor or aim-related scattering.
The "piss-on-wall" urinal with recessed floor drain is the... golden standard.
Really, the design constraints for female-use urinals are far more challenging. I have no hope that existing manufacturers can get close to correct there as long as every men's room I see outside of a sports stadium has "bucket" style urinals, mounted at the wrong height, with no thought to splashback or occupancy etiquette.
I haven't had to clean public washrooms in over 10 years now, but I will never forget the incredibly disgusting sights I had to endure in the stalls of women's washrooms. While men's stalls aren't always spic 'n span either (if any man reading this has ever taken a piss without even lifting the seat, or have poured half your liquid onto the floor - fuck you), the number of occasions on which this is encountered is a tiny fraction compared to what women routinely do.
Yuck.
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The piss-on-wall urinal is horrid. There's splashback no matter how you stand. The problem is especially exacerbated if the user is wearing sandals.
The golden standard (imo) is a water-flush bowl-style urinal mounted at an appropriate height and with wide dividers between users. TBH though, I still prefer a stall.
This being said selecting urinals as a comparison to enterprise mobile UX/UP patterns is a bit off-putting, sexist and simply unprofessional.
Which is not to say it isn't, but I'd like to hear you explain/justify your claim that it is sexist.
That's usually all it takes nowadays.
The problem is it feeds pretty heavily into the notion of "Male as Default" and that when you're talking to a tech audience, you're talking exclusively to guys. The thing being discussed, compared to, etc. is supposed to be a common experience, something that you've actually thought about, or at least would go "Yeah, that is weird..."
For half the population, urinals are not so much something they interact with. By assuming it's a common experience, you're assuming the reader is male.
You must be great fun at parties.