Mobile web with Figma + Designing for Africa
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Conference claims that African users are overwhelmingly mobile so design centers on mobile-first patterns built and tested on actual phones, with figma used for prototypes and real-device usability runs. Network realities surface: 46.6% internet penetration, Lagos ≈21 million people, average speeds ~11.66 Mbps down 9 Mbps up, and browsers like oprah mini compress pages stripping CSS. Concrete choices include limiting images and bytes, supporting USSD flows, three‑step core tasks, and shaving milliseconds of load time.
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