Building digital products with simple feature phones in mind

In the last five years, the mobile first approach to starting a business or building a product has been one of the most important and visible trends of the digital industry. Following the tremendous growth in mobile internet usage; entrepreneurs, publishers, designers and product managers have looked for innovative ways to deliver their products and contents through new and smaller devices.

What I learnt this summer, travelling through East Africa and meeting with many digital entrepreneurs, is that there are in many cases a…