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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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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

maybe this… thrilling??? discussion of who’s 10x enough to maintain the site theme is better suited to the orange site @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was looking for the mute button a long time ago

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for @ing me!

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ahahaha, off you fuck

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ok, tables and colour values. Sounds good.