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

  • SteveOPEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    don’t underestimate the work that goes into maintaining two UI themes on that level. Every new thing has to cater for both themes by the designers. Those colour values are easy for devs IF the css is built to accommodate. It very rarely is… and by rarely I mean never, but say rarely to appease the devs seeing this who think they’ve built something that accommodates it.

    • @givesomefucksEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      You set up a table for each.

      If you’re adding one thing that needs a color value, you just add a color to each table rather than a single color…

      It’s honestly not complicated or time consuming. Especially when two versions already exist…

      • SteveOPEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        ok, tables and colour values. Sounds good.

    • SparkingEnglish
      5•1 year ago

      For the love of… they are freaking twitter! It is one of the most used user interfaces in the world! I think they can spring for the necessary dev resources to maintain a UI that can support multiple modes.

        • SteveOPEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          I was looking for the mute button a long time ago

        • SparkingEnglish
          0•1 year ago

          What are you trying to say? That twitter doesn’t have enough money to develop in a modern design system? It’s not a matter of BS mythical 10x developers. Although according to elon all the non 10xers were fired I guess.

        • @givesomefucksEnglish
          0•1 year ago

          Thanks for @ing me!

          I wouldn’t know to block you otherwise, makes it super convenient.

          • SparkingEnglish
            1•1 year ago

            I’m guessing they are using a client that tags people automatically. Mastodon client does this. I have no idea what the posts are saying though.

            • @givesomefucksEnglish
              1•1 year ago

              I really don’t care why they did it, it’s just annoying to get a notification that someone I wasn’t talking to replied to someone else I wasn’t talking too.

              Pretty safe bet I don’t want to see anything else they need to say.

              • SparkingEnglish
                1•1 year ago

                Well, I guess, but it’s pretty understandable if they are using a client that is trying to copy the default Mastodon client behavior for some reason. Just sayin.