What’s Your Web?

The web’s built on an open protocol, and was always meant to be an inclusive network. As web designers we’re not willing to compromise the experience on the desktop but that often doesn’t hold true for mobiles. In turn this affects millions whose window to the web are these devices in their pockets — almost treating them as second class citizens. This talk points out that our bias will soon turn into a massive problem as the next billion people get on the web.

Transcript

1. What’s Your Web?
2. @souvikdg
3. Miranj
4. Created by Andrew Cameron from the Noun Project
7. Browser crashes, position:fixed elements, etc.
8. Mobile Browsing in 2015 CommitStrip
12. In 2014…
13. -13% page views on desktops and laptops Source: Digital, Social & Mobile in 2015
14. +39% page views on mobiles Source: Digital, Social & Mobile in 2015
15. @nixxin 2012 when will conferences go beyond pitches and stating the obvious? ffs,"mobile web usage in increasing" is not insightful,even if you have data “
16. Mobile web usage is on the rise
17. Mobile is a hard problem
18. Mobile is an odd problem
19. Dad's Radio by Alan Levine
20. “Back to the Future”
21. Why do I work on the web?
22. Reach
23. Web of trust for all on everything W3C Mission for rich interaction of data and services
24. People with Internet Connection
25. 87% USA
26. 42% Global Average
27. 19% India
28. Web pages served to mobile
29. 25% USA
30. 33% Global Average
31. 72% India
32. Wealth distribution in India
33. Poorest 10% Richest 10% In India, the richest 10% own 74% of total wealth Source: India’s staggering wealth gap in five charts — The Hindu
34. Smartphones are getting affordable
35. First time users
36. In 2013, global smartphone sales exceeded feature phone sales… Source: Gartner
37. Asia/Pacific grew the highest at 74.1 percent, followed by Latin America Source: Gartner
38. Cab and auto drivers, people the on buses, delivery boys, street vendors, farmers, etc.
39. “ प"री iद'ली ) *ी WiFi +,- ”
42. Average Net Connection Speeds USA Global India India (Mobile) 11.5mbps 4.5mbps 2.0mbps 1.7mbps Source: Digital, Social & Mobile in 2015
43. Jan 2013 1284kb Jan 2014 1682kb Jan 2015 Apr 2015 1931kb 1950kb Average Page Weight Source: HTTP Archive
44. In 2013, UC Browser became the most popular browser in India. Today its share is 32%. Source: StatCounter
45. whatdoesmysitecost.com
49. “View Desktop Version”
50. Banking in India
51. m.icicibank.com We have ensured that key services are available to you on the mobile website. For other services, please continue to desktop login. “
52. Mobile-only users
53. mobiForge Global Mobile Statistics 2014 In many developing nations, the majority of mobile web users are mobile-only, highest include Egypt at 70 percent and India at 59 percent. “
54. mobiForge Global Mobile Statistics 2014 Many mobile-only web users do not have a bank account, in India this is 57 percent of the mobile-only. “
55. #doorslam
56. One Web
57. W3C Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 One Web means making, as far as is reasonable, the same information and services available to users irrespective of the device they are using. “
58. W3C Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 …while services may be most appropriately experienced in one context or another, it is considered best practice to provide as reasonable experience as is possible given device limitations and not to exclude access from any particular class of device, except where this is necessary because of device limitations. “
59. whatdomobileuserswanttodo.com
61. Mobiles have made it economically feasible for a large section of India to access the web…
62. …and an even larger population from the weaker socio-economic section are waiting to get onboard
63. India is just one of 117 developing nations…
64. …and one of the ten newly industrialised countries
65. The Map Is Not The Territory Ethan Marcotte Build 2012 and An Event Apart, Chicago 2013
66. Soon, if it hasn’t happened already, people using the web will be very different from us
67. A compromised mobile web experience will affect far more number of people than a compromised laptop / desktop experience…
68. …and would go against the vision, the mission, the values and the guiding principles that make the web
69. The Web is Agreement thewebisagreement.com
70. Accessibility is the base experience
71. Performance is an uncompromisable feature
72. The promise of the web — @dpup …if the web didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent it. “
73. Dear technologists, please make the right compromises
74. Spare a thought about who you might be excluding
75. What’s Your Web?