The real numbers: Designing systems requires a lot of data
JOHANNESBURG – Women like travelling and shopping. In fact many use toilet facilities more than men.
The source of my evidence is what I will get to later. I would argue that designing systems requires a lot of data. In addition this and observations, assumptions are made and are embedded in the design with far reaching consequences.
I remember how I once shocked a side event of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York on matters statistics and gender.
Most of the audience was naturally women. I made the same assertion that women like travelling and shopping more than men. And that they use toilets more than men.
The source of my evidence is shopping malls, restaurants and filling stations along the highway. In all instances the queue of women is invariably longer than that of men. So clearly women should be in the majority amongst those who travel.
Source: iol.co.za