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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
The samples on HN might be a bit skewed, its design is after all a bit on the boring side.
Web 1.0 utilitarian design
You could even say it has fans.
> "How old are you?" I asked.
> "Twenty-five."
> "Of course you are."
You will never, ever, ever do good design while holding your audience in contempt.
They are fully and completely entitled to their aesthetic preferences and those preferences have absolutely no bearing on their worth or right to enjoy the products they use in whatever way they choose to use them.
If you can't have enough compassion for your users to design something they love respecting who they are then you shouldn't be designing for them.
I don't know if it's related, but there seems to be a trend these past years of ugly design taking over... The first company I remember was Dropbox but they seem to have backpedalled on that when looking at their current homepage. Gumroad or Xolo recently updated their websites and are perfect examples of what I'm talking about: https://gumroad.com/ https://www.xolo.io/
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You’re talking about “weirdcore”: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XpgddVUidq0
The comedian/meme personality Sam Hyde was doing this a couple years ago https://youtu.be/7ENMpzR54us
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 yea…
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I don't know if it's related, but there seems to be a trend these past years of ugly design taking over... The first company I remember was Dropbox but they seem to have backpedalled on that when looking at their current homepage. Gumroad or Xolo recently updated their websites and are perfect examples of what I'm talking about: https://gumroad.com/ https://www.xolo.io/
Design trends come and go. Minimalism is has probably already peaked, and typically when a trend peaks the next trend intentionally runs against it. The "gen-z" look reminds me of the early web when people thought that and were really exciting html elements. Those were noisy pages, but they had the feeling of an enthusiastic hobbyist scrapbook, and that was part of the appeal. "I could make something cool like that."…
Humans naturally crave both novelty and familiarity and the tensions between those desires mean that aesthetics will always evolve and oscillate.