Contexts

Software Architecture in the Real World

Sam Nabi

samnabi.github.io/contexts

User environments

User impacts

Business models

Other software

Context 1

User environments

You have no control over the network

Anticipate connectvity issues

hood.ie

getshine.com

You have no control over the device


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Internet of Things

In-app browsers

Progressive enhancement

Ability

Users may manipulate your software at the OS or browser level (zoom, colour, font)

Colour-blindness	8% Men 0.5% Women * Of Northern European ancestry. USA National Institutes of Health
Dyslexia	2-3% StatCan Publication No. 89-628-X

Context 1: User environments

Questions?

Context 2

User impacts

"People aren't edge cases"

— Carina C. Zona, Schemas for the real world

"Artificial intelligence expert Vivienne Ming said machine-learning systems often reflect biases in the real world. Some systems struggle to recognize non-white people because they were trained on Internet images which are overwhelmingly white, she explained."

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/07/01/google-mistakenly-tags-black-people-as-gorillas-showing-limits-of-algorithms/

Social tools, social responsibility

Inclusive spaces

Blocking, muting, reporting, content control, accessibility

"Blocking functionality must be part of any social network’s minimum viable product. Because without a block button, social networks are essentially unusable — not viable — for many marginalized people." — Eva Gantz