Designing software with travel in mind

While I was away in Düsseldorf, and when I got back, I received a notification in Artemis asking whether I wanted to change the time zone in which the reader was set. It is important that the user’s timezone is correct so that Artemis can continue to update at midnight in the user’s time zone. Here is what the notification looked like when I got back, in which I am prompted to change my time zone from Europe/Berlin to Europe/London:ALTA yellow banner at the top of the Artemis interface, above the navigation bar, that informs the user their current time zone is different to the one set for their account.This feature works by checking the user’s time zone with JavaScript. If the user is in a different time zone to the one in which their account is configured, the notification will appear. The notification can be dismissed, which sets a value in localStorage that remembers the user no longer wants to see the notification. 1This has me thinking about what it means to design software with…