| 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
