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I'm with you here, however the author has a valid point. I've been using a 43" screen (4K x1) as my main and only for several years; switching to a laptop for a

I'm with you here, however the author has a valid point. I've been using a 43" screen (4K x1) as my main and only for several years; switching to a laptop for a business trip threw me into a world of confusion, I kept instinctively reaching around to find the button or window corner to make the window larger - but it was already as large as it gets! I don't get to do a whole lot of UI/UX work, but I feel that this kind of experience can have a huge impact on how people think about addressing the needs of their users. I felt genuinely constrained, in a way that just playing with CSS breakpoints doesn't. I think having a smaller screen on a secondary device for testing your UI/UX work is a very good idea - same as testing how your website/app works on 10 year old hardware, or over a 3G connection.

IYasha 4y ago
3G is still too good! ) I've recently tried to open a Goolag table and do an online payment while the ISP limited connection to 80kb/s (like a dial-up). While I KIND OF understand the futility of opening web-stuff like spreadsheets, the second task of sending a whopping 30 bytes of credit card data failed dramatically. WHY THE HECK!?! Why the heck even such critical parts of Internet became web2.0 slow over-bloated AJAX-JSON-stuffed piles of garbage?! Smoothie-drinking chilled-openspace web-cod...desig..makers? don't realize that their services JUST MIGHT happen to get accessed by people in potentially disastrous situations? Like the world never seen earhquakes, floods and wars? Or just rains. Yeah, rains that block your 4G and wet your stupid touchscreens.