Stella Dou

Stella Dou

Lead Product/UX Builder
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I'm a UX leader with over a decade of experience designing and scaling complex SaaS products, with deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, IT operation management, and enterprise security experiences. After leading product design, building and managing a UX org, I am exploring a new role in the AI era — as a hybrid UX/Product lead, building AI-powered tools end to end, from strategy to demo to launch. I build where design, product, and code meet.

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4d ago

61% of our users have never seen our product on a fast connection.

We logged connection speed metadata across 2.1 million sessions over 60 days.

Under 5 Mbps: 24%
5 20 Mbps: 37%
20 100 Mbps: 28%
Over 100 Mbps: 11%

61% of sessions were under 20 Mbps. Our median asset payload per page was 4.2 MB. On a fast connection that was invisible. On a 5 Mbps connection it was 7 seconds of loading. Our office had gigabit fiber. Our users had hotel wifi, mobile hotspots, and shared connections in buildings with too many people and not enough bandwidth.

We built a low-bandwidth mode that loaded a text-first version with images on demand. Median payload dropped to 480 KB. Session length in the under-5-Mbps group rose 34%, and bounce rate in that group dropped from 51% to 28%.

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