mhoye13h ago

I get the snark, but "page has to load in x time on expensive device in expensive city"... where is the human? Your audience isn't a phone.

I know I've said this a lot, but I think about the NHS digital design standards all the time, about that presentation where their lead designer talked about finding agent strings for devices like the Playstation Vita and Opera for the Nintendo DS in their logs. About how the NHS site had to work for those people too, no matter what.

https://wandering.shop/@fugueish/116695409129543894

Show threadmhoye13h ago
"Your use case is, there's a fourteen year old in an emergency room at 3 AM. English is their second or maybe fourth language. They have a battered school Chromebook or a hand-me-down Android device that was the cheapest thing on the market six years ago or a PS Vita their parents don't even realize has a web browser, and they're trying to educate themselves in the middle of the single most terrifying night they've ever experienced. Your site needs to work for that person at that moment."
Patch Arcana4h ago
Show threadKevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦
@mhoye and hooking your website into the modern advertising industry immediately rules out that user. Their system can't handle all the popups and animations and JS.
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Show threadLucy7h ago
@kboyd @mhoye Yet another reason to depend on exactly 0 external sources, especially tracking/advertising and keep JS to a minimum