"Walking A Mile In Your Users' Shoes"
summary
Shows concrete surprises and fixes: demographic gaps (Stack Overflow 65+ = 0.3% vs farms skewing 55–74), an Android evidence app that uses Couchbase local sync to avoid Wi‑Fi, printing rescued by a removable‑battery Bluetooth printer because hospitals lack power, users who never touch smartphones failing to enter underscores, French translations that mean the wrong thing, renaming AgriList for Spanish pronounceability, plant‑site vs decimal tray logic, and Unicode fonts/emoji that break screen readers.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:08What is empathy
- 3:49Code is code
- 4:33User Demographics
- 10:07Flow of Empathy
- 11:04Case Studies
- 12:58Challenges
- 15:13The Challenges
- 18:12Hardware Considerations
- 20:30Agriculture Case Study
- 22:05Internationalization
- 23:28Layout
- 24:40Mobile App
- 25:25Plant Site
- 27:18Accessibility
- 29:17Screen Readers
- 32:12Colorblindness
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