I know the article doesn't really talk much about dark mode in the end, but the title in context does sort of imply that Dark mode is Millennial mode. I whole-heartedly agree. I never got the hype.
Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
The formatting in italics makes this seem like a quote, but I can't find a source. Is this a quote from a larger work?
Well, I imagine it to be a larger work. But it just came to me now as a sentence / fragment of a larger one. I haven't written it yet...should I do this?
Yep!
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#193I am definitely not Gen-Z but neither look especially exciting to me. Both are sorta boring in their own way. Nothing like the insane stuff we used to see on Geocities!
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#194Can we also have a "Gen-X" mode, when I can use dark theme for UI and light theme for content?
This boggles my mind that I can't have it in any OS or browser. The fact that I want muted-looking UX doesn't mean that I want the same for content. I can't read white-on-black text for longer than a minute.
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#195Surprised this "content" didn't upset more of the "my internet shouldn't have ads on it" people.
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#196At least the title is showing developers that themes aren't a `isDark` binary that I keep seeing in the wild.
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#197The proposal reminds me of a modern version of all the bad flashy and related flags from the 90s.
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
Little defensive there, huh.
Sure, feel free to go around the internet and accuse people of something, then make fun of them for being defensive when they explain how it's not what you thought. Especially after preceding your entire post with "I might be overly sensitive"
I don't even know how to respond to you. Saying "Little defensive there, huh" constitutes "mak[ing] fun of"? I'm not sure who's actually the sensitive one here.
Besides, pointing out ableism isn't an accusation. In fact, I don't accuse you of anything personally, I bemoan the joke. In the face of this, you retreat to a scenario where you are besieged every day by recreational Ritalin users in order defend your ego from maybe admitting your joke wasn't actually funny (or accurate).
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#199I've never actually heard the word "cheugy" used except by howdy-fellow-young-people journalists who think they found out how kids talk these days. I think it may be a trollword specifically intended to bait such journalists, similar to Megan Jasper's fake "grunge slang" the New York Times got suckered into publishing in the early 90s.
That app design looks like GeoCities barfed into a Unicorn Frappuccino. I don't see anyone (except maybe little kids) enduring it for long as a practical UI. As a bit of fun, like GeoCities pages were, sure, why not, but cloying UI becomes psychically fatiguing over time -- a lesson that could/should have been learned from the UI mistakes of previous generations, but alas.
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#200First things first: I don't think there's anything wrong with the design based on the screenshots. At least, nothing stands out as being so unusable that users would flee for your competitor.
As for "Gen Z preferences", I don't think there's enough to go on here to prove that. I'm over 35 and have watched user interfaces go from the the fun, colourful and UNIQUE designs of the 2009-era iOS apps to the hyper-corporate, boring af grid system that's "Apple Approved". Android is similar, w/ Material Design. I think they have a new one now that replaces MD, but I can't be bothered to look it up.
You're creating a video speed dating app. Dating is supposed to be FUN. Why design it like Zoom? Have you used trivia apps like QuizUp? You'll notice how different the design and dynamics are compared to most apps that are designed to render text/image data in specified fields.
Also look at TikTok/Douyin for an example of unconventional app design. They could have just copied Instagram, which is blandness personified. But they went with an unfamilar style that nonetheless took off. Nobody's asking "how do I turn my camera on" there, are they?