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Back in the late 2000s, those laptops would be covered with various stickers -- Obama, sports, home star runner, etc. The last decade or so they have just been shiny unadorned metal or plastic.
This year amongst my 18 year-old students, the stickers have started coming back.
Although their particular design aesthetic is also very common in the NFT space.
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Welcome to what millennials have experienced for a couple decades: Older generations who think they know exactly what the younger generations want based on little more than a stereotype or maybe the feedback from one young person they spoke to once.
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.
My first thought seeing the Gen-Z version was "why don't they show a flashing marquee banner, an email with flapping wings, and play some MIDI music while they're at it?"
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Millennials are spoiled by the attention. The Committee for Generational Distinctions is still trying to erase the existence of GenXers. But it all gets better in your 40s. That's when you and your peers start to have enough power and money to be catered to. And when the 20-somethings start bitching about you. > Older generations who think they know exactly what the younger generations This is frequently called 'soci…
We millennials are turning forty, for the first time, this year! I'm waiting with eager anticipation to hear what wrongs our whole generation is uniquely responsible for.
Every single element of design featured on this page looks terrible: the apps and websites visible in screenshots, the blog itself. 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. The text on the website isn't evenly centred inside the boxes (top padding is…
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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.
// braces for downvotes
..much like Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
Disclaimer: According to my wife I am not to be trusted with decor choices.
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It takes literal ages to edit videos in this style so while the end result may resemble h.264 encoded ADHD, the process does not.
Literal ages is such a random gen-z way of describing this! I'm literally a video editor/motion graphics person, so no, this doesn't take "literal ages" to edit.
There's approximately three animated memes per second in these and people are usually using pirated Vegas to make them.
Task is generally the correct choice. Consider two apps: One is playful, coy, energetic, private and safe. The other is efficient, prudent, clear and secure.
It’s likely you can confidently determine which is a dating app and which a banking app. If I told you one is a dating app for boomers and the other a dating app for millennials you’ll have a much harder time.
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/