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

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      If “X” can’t handle a light mode and a dark mode, then that’s not a very good sign…

      You’re acting like they need to code a whole new app rather than a single if/then statements with different color values.

      Do you have any idea what you’re talking about?

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        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.

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          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.

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          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…

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          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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              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.

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      If he didn’t fire everyone except his H1B slaves this wouldn’t be an issue.