n7gifmdnMar 28, 2025

Zoomers & Boomers are the same

https://lemmy.ca/post/41402040

Zoomers & Boomers are the same - Lemmy.ca

screenshot, probably from Ex-Twitter but I saw it on NOSTR, showing a guy saying that training a zoomer to use a PC at work is as difficult as training a boomer, with a reply indicating that there is only one generation that can rotate a PDF and that knowledge dies with us [https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/b0399309-b7a3-433d-8de2-c7599ec36f10.png]

Show threadPiJiNWiNgMar 28, 2025

An unfortunate consequence of developers playing to the lowest common denominator of users for the last twenty years. Everything has been designed to be as easy and intuitive as possible for mobile, and troubleshooting skills have suffered as a result.

Not to mention that phones are crazy powerful and can do virtually everything these days, so fewer and fewer people are buying PCs. If the general population is indeed “going backwards” in regards to tech literacy, it seems like demand for IT services is going to spike in the coming years. Good thing to keep in mind for young people choosing a career path!

Show threadedwardbearMar 28, 2025
Developers don’t decide that. Blame UX folk for making things simple.
Show threadatomicbocksMar 28, 2025
As a UX person often my job is to implement somebody else’s vision rather than being able to design something that makes sense.
Show threadedwardbearMar 28, 2025
As long as you treat yourself as a pixel pusher, this is a side effect. When you understand that you are a mirror for ideas, you will empower yourself.
Show threadDarkenfolkMar 29, 2025
“Listen boss, I know you wanted me to create it in a certain way, but I am not a pixel pusher alright?! I am a mirror of ideas, so I made something completely different from what you pay me for, what do you mean I’m fired?”
Show threadedwardbear
If you say it that way, then yes, even the nicest person will call you a cunt and fire you. If you ask questions, as a user, and showing patterns that support your thesis, this becomes a conversation, rather than a “do it that way”.
Mar 29, 2025 at 8:18amWeb
Show threadnotgoldMar 29, 2025

I agree in principle but when I’m building something I’m normally 3 - 5 people removed from the people who want it. It’s hard to push your ideas back through project managers, project engineers, program managers, presale engineers, contract managers, feed managers and then onto the actual company that asked you to implement the “solution”.

Show threadedwardbearMar 29, 2025
That’s a problem, I agree. I feel privileged then, because I actually get to research, and interview, and split test. It was a long battle, I’ve been trying to build that culture for a good 5+ years. Once the features started flopping, I started by doing 2 prototypes - one, based on the PRD from the product team and another, based on my personal research. I had to work 12, sometimes 15 hours a day, but when, instead of showing problems, I was showing solutions, without the “i-told-you-so”s, and when I made it clear that I care about the product’s health alone, that’s when I became the mirror. I reckon it’s not an industry term, but it’s what I like to call it - product presents their idea, you reflect it, and more often than not they do not like what they see.
Show threadnotgoldMar 30, 2025
I’m with you; I don’t like i-told-you-so, I like solutions. I wasn’t saying you shouldn’t try, because you obviously should, i was just bitching about the difficulties I have in holding up the mirror.