Real World Problems - Internet beyond the 1st World Bubble
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Claims concrete fixes: internationalize core flows and support major local languages; optimize for 45% of India connected not Silicon Valley devices; measure on cheap phones with <2 GB RAM and test on 2GB phones using network throttling in Chrome. Examples: Airbnb fails on an older feature phone, uber light trades maps for reliability and actually works. Advice includes minimizing first-click downloads, optimizing video/SVGs, providing demo overlays and icon-driven UI for illiterate or first-time users.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:53Keerthana Krishnan
- 1:53Where do users come from?
- 4:41Why do we need this?
- 8:50Case #1 - Uber
- 9:45Improving internationalization
- 11:20A family of mobile devices
- 17:50WiFi in India - A closer look
- 25:14Create a demo mode!
- 26:04In summary ...
