Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?

getfilteroff.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

131–140 of 350 posts

Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?

#131

Post by Shorel »

z3c0 wrote: post #26
SamBam wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. I feel like I've heard so many comments recently that the web looks so boring, and people miss the old fun of the early web. And people who miss the web of the 90s and early Oughts are by definition not Gen Z... I'm excited for a bit of bang and pop and messiness and individuality to come back. With it, I hope for return of websites. You can't display individuality on an endless scrolling feed of social media.

I started out a little curmudgeonly about the style, but was won over by Persona 5: https://www.atlus.com/persona5/home.html It's messy, chaotic, and feels like something from the late 90's/early 00's, where you'd often see custom web pages using formatted images as elements of the page. But I love it. I can't quite make sense of it, as I adhere pretty strongly to brutalism/minimalism when designing my own content.

It looks like a well-designed comic book.

Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?

#132

Post by carlisle_ »

dylan604 wrote: post #101
carlisle_ wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I blame Ritalin for this type of video, either someone took too much or needs to up their dosage. Maybe I’m overly sensitive, but I’m really tired of ADHD ableist jokes like this one. With the controversy and struggles of medication for ADHD, implying that the only functional ADHD brain is a medicated one just frankly sucks.

>Maybe I’m overly sensitive Yes, I would suggest in this specific instance you are. >but I’m really tired of ADHD ableist jokes like this one Not once did I mention ADHD which is a medically recognized condition. However, the use of Ritalin in today's society is not limited to those that are prescribed Ritalin as a treatment for ADHD. There are many many people that use it recreationaly. Being around people using it…

Little defensive there, huh.

Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?

#133

Post by ghaff »

whimsicalism wrote: post #100
user_7832 wrote: post #83

I am a little surprised to see no one question the author's description or assumption of "Gen Z". As someone presumably from Gen Z, I find both interfaces either bad or terrible. The partiful design is outright tacky and looks terrible (nothing homogeneous, questionable design choices etc) but Filteroff has so much whitespace it feels like it was designed by soulless corps at Uber or Facebook who just studied from Pi…

Eh. I agree with what you are saying, but also think the general trends they are pointing out do seem to sort of be preferred by Gen Z.. more "maximalist." Look at Depop, for example. --fellow gen Z-er

I can't speak to the Gen Z angle but...

Design is somewhat of a fashion business and we've seen a period where simplicity and spareness has been the fashion. Apple's aesthetic by way of Jony Ive post-skeuomorphism is probably the most familiar example. But whether influenced by or part of the same fashion trend it's extremely widespread. It wouldn't surprise me in the least to find something of a backlash.

Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?

#134

Post by kixiQu »

karaterobot wrote: post #52
SamBam wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. I feel like I've heard so many comments recently that the web looks so boring, and people miss the old fun of the early web. And people who miss the web of the 90s and early Oughts are by definition not Gen Z... I'm excited for a bit of bang and pop and messiness and individuality to come back. With it, I hope for return of websites. You can't display individuality on an endless scrolling feed of social media.

I haven't heard nearly as many people wanting a return to maximalist 90s web design. People miss the time when a website wasn't a 3 megabyte download, and didn't pop up a newsletter signup form. They don't (as often) miss the web pages with 100 animated gifs on them, an over the top tiled background, blinking text, and so on. Many more people want the minimalism of a page that gets out of the way and shows you the co…

> People miss the time when a website wasn't a 3 megabyte download, and didn't pop up a newsletter signup form. They don't (as often) miss the web pages with 100 animated gifs on them, an over the top tiled background, blinking text, and so on.

This is really colored by who you're paying attention to.

https://yesterweb.org/webring/members.html Literally animated gifts, tiled bgs, etc.

> Many more people want the minimalism of a page that gets out of the way and shows you the content you came for

This is an assumption, not data.

Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?

#135

Post by MattPalmer1086 »

Is it just me, or does anyone else find this whole lumping people into arbitrary generations with silly labels completely stupid?

I don't see myself as broadly similar to other people who happen to be roughly the same age as me. Then again, I'm GenX, so I guess I'm just cynical ;)

Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?

#136

Post by dvtrn »

bckr wrote: post #126
dugmartin wrote: post #31

At age 50 now, I'd prefer a Gen X mode where the font size is 125% and the text is high contrast.

Eh, as a Zillenial, I like it when my eyes don't hurt so I'd probably use that mode too

I thought it was "Zennial", but then again for the longest time I also thought the "millennials" were "Gen-Y" and that Billy Joel actually started the fire, so wtf do I even know anymore about what generations are called

Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?

#137

Post by asciimov »

Millennial here, I welcome anything to break up the current design aesthetics. I never liked material design and designs from Apple and Google both look tired.

I did dark modes before it was cool, but now that I'm getting older, I want some kind of grey mode. Something that doesn't feel like I'm looking down the barrel of a flashlight nor something that's gonna cause eyestrain.

As for all the flashy doodads and movement. That's more designing for psychology than aesthetics. Movement looks exciting, and has been used successfully for years in other mediums.

Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?

#138

Post by graderjs »

Gerald took off his glasses and rubbed them a little on the tablecloth. He was bewildered. How could this be, he kept thinking to himself. No--how, literally, could this be?

He couldn't have known it, but at that very moment, the same conversation, and the same bewilderment, was being had, in offices over lunch hours, around dinner tables in startup work condos, all across America. Something had shifted.

In later years this age would come to be known as: The Dawn of the GenZ School of Itinerant Design. GenY art historians with goth hair and overcoats tried and failed to analyze it as a "return to the retro-aesthetics of MySpace and Geo-cities, heralded by Glitch", but the labels never stuck. Older, wiser and more bitter professionals, fustily defogging their glasses while seated defeatedly at their architect-style slanted drafting desks (with optional standing desk accessory), would oftentimes mutter to themselves, alone at night in their downtown 23rd-floor apartments, lit only by the synthetic warm-LED glow of their ironically chosen "Banker's lamps", a different name for this cultural watershed: "The End-times' Madness." But nobody listened to them anyways, and they didn't much care.

Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?

#139

Post by frostwarrior »

karaterobot wrote: post #52
SamBam wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. I feel like I've heard so many comments recently that the web looks so boring, and people miss the old fun of the early web. And people who miss the web of the 90s and early Oughts are by definition not Gen Z... I'm excited for a bit of bang and pop and messiness and individuality to come back. With it, I hope for return of websites. You can't display individuality on an endless scrolling feed of social media.

I haven't heard nearly as many people wanting a return to maximalist 90s web design. People miss the time when a website wasn't a 3 megabyte download, and didn't pop up a newsletter signup form. They don't (as often) miss the web pages with 100 animated gifs on them, an over the top tiled background, blinking text, and so on. Many more people want the minimalism of a page that gets out of the way and shows you the co…

That's just rationality intertwined with nostalgia.

I mean, I do acknowledge how messy 90s websites were. Overly bloated with GIFs and annoying MIDIs playing on the background. But they were full of personality. And it was also a time where getting into "the internet" was an exciting thing by itself.

Only us, people who are "computer literate", complain about a 3mb download or 10mb javascript blob. Most people don't care as long as their phone or computer are able to do the job.

Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?

#140

Post by fleetwoodsnack »

zthrowaway wrote: post #65

> I'm a 33 year old straight male Completely off topic, but why do I need to know your sexuality? Seriously, can we stop doing this? It does not matter.

From a marketing perspective (which informs UIUX), these demographic qualities do matter.
Post reply on HN