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
      4·
      2 年前

      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.

      • Sparking@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        2 年前

        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
          2·
          2 年前

          ok, tables and colour values. Sounds good.

      • traveler01@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        2 年前

        Most of the people speaking probably are used to build basic frontend pages with Tailwind and shit and aren’t really concerned about if things actually look good on both schemes. Them saying these wouldn’t free up resources at Twitter because it’s way too easy makes me think these guys are just script kiddies playing at developers, or they just have very good teammates that fix their bullshit after they submit.

        • traveler01@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 年前

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

          Clearly not since you’re saying development of two different color schemes is easy and barely time consuming.

          • Zorque@kbin.social
            6·
            2 年前

            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.

          • 520@kbin.social
            5·
            2 年前

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