Chapter 13
Being a Good Watch App Citizen

Our little app TapALap has grown into a pretty useful workout tool! Time to ship, right? Well, probably not. We want TapALap to be useful for as many people as possible, but so far we’ve been considering only a relatively small portion of our potential userbase: English-speaking people who live in the United States and don’t have visual or other physical impairments. The signs of this are everywhere: our text is exclusively in the English language, our units are in miles, and we haven’t even thought about what our app is like for a vision-impaired user. We’re going to want to fix all of this before we ship. By supporting more languages, countries, and user capabilities, we’ll open up our app to more potential users—it’s just good business.