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

  • Hextic
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    511 months ago

    The Simpsons song “just don’t look” repeats endlessly in my head.

    Probably the best piece of advice the Simpsons ever accidentally gave out. Imagine if we all did.

    • @BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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      311 months ago

      Thanks for bringing back that memory.

      It was nice back when the Simpsons used to be good. Now it’s just celebrity cameos with name drops instead of playing original characters.