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

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Post by replygirl »

hef19898 wrote: post #163
intrasight wrote: post #145

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> Design trends come and go. True. Buy my training is in military, process control, and nuclear. In those context, I've never heard a project manager say "make it look like a game". Whereas in business apps, I have heard that many times.

And that is a good thing, some applications, explicitly not apps , have to be made to work and function properly. Not to look good or fancy. Just wait until someone proposes to build a blinky-clicky UI on top of the serious stuff to make it easier for users. No joke, I have that problem at work right now...

when the ui doesn't evolve with the user base, everyone in hawaii gets texted a nuclear emergency alert

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

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Post by olyjohn »

5ESS wrote: post #171
agrippanux wrote: post #164

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“The excessively rounded ages make me feel as if I was in a children's house, where everything was rounded so that children don't hurt themselves hitting their heads on corners, or even on a children's carousel.” This is exactly why I can’t use MacOS anymore. It’s a neon-pastel-candy-colored, everything-is-rounded, excessive white space UI nightmare for me.

Have fun missing out on M1. Mac OS Monterey looks fine to me especially on dark mode. What ui element you use often is neon pastel colored exactly besides the window controls and the loading cursor? (Which we’re almost always colorful)

Oh no! I'm going to miss out on a processor which is faster than some other processor under certain workloads! Please say it ain't so! Oh god what ever will I do with this x86-based Mac? I guess I'll throw it out for fear of missing out on... something...

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

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Post by mostlysimilar »

deltarholamda wrote: post #173
api wrote: post #129

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That's not new. Gen-Xers got the same thing. Boomers got the same thing. Lazy stereotyping wasn't invented yesterday. I don't think this blog post means to stereotype all of gen-Z though. I think they're just using it as a foil to talk about the counter-trend to early-21st-century minimalism. That was in turn a counter-trend to late-1990s / early-2000s eclecticism like old Geocities.

>Gen-Xers got the same thing GenX got ignored. The baton was passed from Boomers to Millennials. I guess we were all taking a bathroom break or something. GenX UI, at least on the Web, was TABLE layouts with spacer GIFs dictated to us by Boomers who wanted brochures. Our crowning design achievement still lives on in WiFi router Web management tools and phpBB. Yo, anybody going to the Phish concert? I need a ride.

In my opinion phpBB remains a more usable interface than many modern software applications, especially the web. Dense with information, tools that empower the user to sort, search, and filter. Ability to express yourself via avatars and signatures, multiple color schemes and interface options.

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

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Post by A4ET8a8uTh0 »

munificent wrote: post #182

> I stare at the page for a second. My brain hurts. I hate it. It felt... distracting, maximal, cluttered, weirdly transparent. Little sparkles animate over the page. > "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 abs…

As much as I would like to agree in principle, I am slowly starting to see author's POV. Modern web is a clusterfuck and modern UI, to me, is not even meeting the needs of the current generation ( what with the A/B testing and dark pattern galore ). It is prettier, but that is only thing it has going for it.

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

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Post by CobaltFire »

__s wrote: post #79
karaterobot wrote: post #52

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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…

Yeah, I recently made a portfolio site for a friend. Very minimalist: https://christinelopez.ca It's hand written. This was also an early web thing: no npm build pipeline. I feel a little bad not making the modal view fallback to image-is-a-link when JS is disabled (I also would've opted for no google fonts, but it ultimately isn't my site) Meanwhile another friend built a similar site: https://kaeillustrates.art whi…

I actually really that that site design!

One note: can you tag that NSFW or somesuch? Even artistic nudity can be unwelcome and get people in trouble.

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

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Post by tgv »

graderjs wrote: post #186
0xffff2 wrote: post #180

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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?

This was fun to read because of the pomposity, but I'm afraid it might get rather dull when extended in the same vein.

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

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Post by replygirl »

carlisle_ wrote: post #70
dylan604 wrote: post #44

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I blame Ritalin for this type of video, either someone took too much or needs to up their dosage. Visual graphix aside, it's just exhausting to listen to. Dude, take a breath, or at least allow your viewers to take one. Had to double check I didn't leave my YT player in faster than normal playback speed.

> 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.

there are people who have to sleep outside, you know

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

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Post by saila »

dylan604 wrote: post #44
derefr wrote: post #33

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You’re talking about “weirdcore”: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XpgddVUidq0

I blame Ritalin for this type of video, either someone took too much or needs to up their dosage. Visual graphix aside, it's just exhausting to listen to. Dude, take a breath, or at least allow your viewers to take one. Had to double check I didn't leave my YT player in faster than normal playback speed.

It's seems pretty obvious that they made the video in this style intentionally as an example of weirdcore.

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

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Post by olyjohn »

fmajid wrote: post #105
IncRnd wrote: post #91

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Someone of age 50 in 2022 is part of Gen X not Boomer gen.

I think jamil was implying Boomers are too stupid to know how to install an ad-blocker. As a Gen-X, I’m inclined to agree.

Wow you're old as fuck and calling the slightly older group stupid.

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

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Post by badsectoracula »

jdlyga wrote: post #38

The "Gen-Z" look feels wrong. But if you step back a little bit, all the "flat design" trends of 2011 also felt wrong in the exact same way. "You mean that after all the advances in computer graphics we're going to just go back to text on top of a rectangle like Windows 3.1?" A lot of people forget this since flat design is just how everything is done nowadays.

> You mean that after all the advances in computer graphics we're going to just go back to text on top of a rectangle like Windows 3.1?

When a friend of mine saw Windows 8 screenshots his first reaction was "why does it look like Athena[0] widgets?" :-P

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Athena_Widgets

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