In practice, someone waiting for a bus in January knows exactly what they need to do on their phone but can't do it reliably. The usual workarounds each fall short: conductive gloves register a touch but are still too coarse for small targets, a stylus is one more thing to carry and drop, and voice input struggles with wind and background noise. The operating system doesn't help much either, since touch sensitivity settings are buried and the layout itself never changes. When we traced the full journey, one gap stood out above the rest: the problem starts at the lock screen. If someone can't enter a passcode with gloves on, every improvement after that point is out of reach.