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

  • Phil@awful.systemsEnglish
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    1 year ago

    He got publicly embarrassed by a disabled person, I know that much. But he would have been like this anyway.

    • kuna@awful.systemsEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Haraldur Thorleifsson? Thanks, I forgot about that whole debacle. Though my post was more of a riff on the meme that he got transphobic after Grimes ran away with Chelsea Manning.