Building for Indian users
Products used at scale in India face conditions that reshape design decisions. Connectivity is uneven and often intermittent, a large share of users are on mid-range Android devices with constrained storage, and data cost still influences behaviour. That pushes toward smaller payloads, offline tolerance, careful app size and interfaces that degrade gracefully rather than assuming a fast connection. Language coverage, script rendering and number and date formats matter for reach, and payments are shaped by UPI and local gateways rather than by card-first assumptions common elsewhere.