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

  • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    Nothing is going to change with this perpetual man child until the world stops paying attention to his little tantrums.

      • BroBot9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year 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.