situational-context-adaptation

name	situational-context-adaptation
description	Use when designing for real-world constraints such as glare, noise, low bandwidth, interruptions, stress, fatigue, one-handed use, or temporary impairments.

Situational Context Adaptation

Use this skill when evaluating how a product performs outside ideal conditions. Focus on supporting users whose environment, device, or temporary condition limits how they can perceive, think, or interact.

Assess Real-World Constraints

• Consider glare, motion, low signal, limited battery, background noise, and device instability
• Review interruption tolerance, save/resume behavior, and task recovery
• Look for assumptions that users are seated, focused, online, and using both hands
• Identify features that fail when conditions become noisy, rushed, or constrained

Improve Resilience

• Preserve core tasks under degraded conditions
• Support offline or low-bandwidth paths where relevant
• Provide clear recovery, persistence, and re-entry points after interruption
• Offer alternative interaction paths when one modality becomes unreliable

Output

• Describe where situational constraints create exclusion or failure
• Recommend adaptations that improve robustness in everyday use
• Prioritize improvements for common, high-impact contexts