Don’t Call Me A User

By Jimmy Gutterman

There are only two industries that refer to their customers as users: high tech and illegal drugs. Is this the company we want to keep?

— Jimmy Gutterman


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Don’t Call Me A User

At Trade Me we stumbled into calling people who used our software “members” who were part of the “community” of buyers and sellers. Unfortunately not every product has such a tidy alternative, but it’s worth taking the time to think about the labels we use within our product teams to describe the people who will eventually use what we’re making - hopefully to do great things.


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