• Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    “I’m the designer of the 2 pixel close button aside of the download link in Mobile ads”

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      As I get older. I understand it more. Gotta hold back your outrage for your own health. Yeah, if I was in my 20s, but now, the 10 seconds are for me not them. It’s about all the time I can muster to prevent me doing something that my body will regret tomorrow.

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I once dated a UX developer. Their entire identity revolved around the fact that they made $120k per year, a duke in the labour aristocracy, and how much they loved the creative challenge of making a user-friendly interface. Their company? It designs smartlocks for luxury prepper bunkers. They told me that there was no backdoor built into the keypads they were programming 12 hours a day. They literally designed the thing that will kill them when they flee to the mountains next to them. It was a fun creative challenge to make locking them out of a tech CEO’s bunker more user-friendly.

    It’s such a particular kind of Engineer Brain derangement. Motherfucker you live in the Andor Prison. You build the death star gear to bomb your own planet. You cannot be proud that you earned flavour in your slop ration that shift.