I talk a lot about how “empathy” in commercial UX is mostly a posture because in reality capitalism doesn’t care, but it’s important to consider the additional problem of people in charge who are too shallow to be capable of understanding “why” some people prefer, or need, to do things differently than they do.

This one time I was telling the ceo/founder of a startup I worked for that our react app was making my new macbook pro crawl and we need to fix that because it was a b2b product that would be used by people in finance offices decked out with dell opticrap machines. He responded with surprise “wow, steve. you really care about people don’t you?”

I was kinda floored. Anyway, here we are…

https://web.archive.org/web/20230727121010/https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1684491212219359232

  • @givesomefucks
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    62 years ago

    I’m not the one saying ridiculous things like taking away “light mode” would free up resources…

    So comparitively speaking, yeah, I’m practically an expert.

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      • Zorque
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        62 years ago

        Compared to the backend development, sure.

        It’s also not like they’re creating it from scratch, it already exists. The muskrat is literally just saying he’s going to get rid of it, not just not develop it.

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        It’s not exactly the hardest part of the job… It’s a CSS file with altered colours.