
Why We Stopped Calling Them "Users"
There's a moment in every project where we catch ourselves doing it — that default industry habit of talking about "users." The word appears everywhere: user flows, user testing, user personas. It's the shorthand web teams rely on because it's convenient and tidy. But after building hundreds of sites, we realized something uncomfortable: every time we said "user," we were distancing ourselves from the very people we were trying to help.


