Baloo UrizaFeb 14

If your interactive program requires network data, please, I beg of you, if you have any humanity at all left in you, do your usability testing on the lowest reasonable global common denominator in this day and age: A 2Mbps packet radio connection *with* other people on the same band.

Desktop *and* mobile. Even if you're not on a cellphone in Syria, you might just be on wifi in a crowded apartment building.

#UX #UI #Accessibility #Dev

Show threadKevin Karhan 

@BalooUriza personally, I consider anything that doesn't work offline or over #Iridium @ 2400bit/s as useless.

  • Unless it has a 'legitimate reason' to beed more bandwith…
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Show threadBaloo UrizaFeb 14
@kkarhan Yeah I'm not exactly asking for miracles at all, this is more of a "remember your roots" call considering that basic use cases haven't exactly changed much over the ~40 years that the internet's been available to the general public now. Or for that matter, what we did with computers in general, since I know Microsoft will find some way to fuck up Office to the point where it won't work without Second Life levels of bandwidth and latency pickiness...
Show threadKevin Karhan Feb 14
@BalooUriza well, you're late to the party…
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“The number of network connections required to @Microsoft and @Skype servers, to get Word just to start, is now 31. You can no longer say "I don´t want to send diagnostic data", then Word just quits silently. (Please spare me the Open/LibreOffice gospel, it does not apply here.)”

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