Comment on Video game publishers are starting to use "anti-DEI" as a marketing meme
CTDummy@lemm.ee 6 hours agoI guess I was hoping for something a bit more rigorous but still your reply makes sense. Thanks for the input.
Comment on Video game publishers are starting to use "anti-DEI" as a marketing meme
CTDummy@lemm.ee 6 hours agoI guess I was hoping for something a bit more rigorous but still your reply makes sense. Thanks for the input.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
DEI is the reason phones can take pictures of black people now. Once Google started hiring more black people, they could make changes to the software that used to always default to trying to adjust exposure for white skin. Now everyone’s skin tone looks good on Google phones. And all because Google hired a few black people who actually knew it was a problem in the first place.
The same goes for any representative technology. The internet didn’t just start working for blind people automatically. Companies had to start hiring blind people before they knew it was an issue. We had a blind engineer come in to our team at Google and tell us how shitty our product was for him to use and how to fix it.
Everyone has different experiences, and just because someone knows how to build what you tell them to doesn’t mean they can make a good product. It’s only when you have diverse input throughout product development that the product you make will truly be good.
CTDummy@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
Hell yeah, thanks a lot for taking the time to spoon food my ignorant butt. Very informative reply, thank you. I guess a reply would be “that can be done without DEI” but then that just circle back to your no one is colourblind remark. If google wasn’t diverse organically without DEI I don’t have much optimism other corporations would be.
melp@beehaw.org 5 hours ago
This is a lovely and illustrative example.