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

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Post by JPKab »

rchaud wrote: post #200

First 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…

Really on point here.

Having worked at a company where our VCs demanded we "do what Google does" and then had to adopt the entire "design system" approach, it ends up robbing UIs of anything fun, because all UIs become "design by committee" by default.

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

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Post by 2143 »

I think this might actually have nothing to do with Millennial or GenZ or whatever.

I mean, the author has just a single data point.

The author's friend might just happened to have liked that particular design, and it might not be true for other Gen Z people.

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Post by ravenstine »

rchaud wrote: post #200

First 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…

> I think they have a new one now that replaces MD, but I can't be bothered to look it up.

Do you mean Material Design 3, or something else?

https://m3.material.io/

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

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Post by justinlloyd »

tgv wrote: post #206
graderjs wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"Those that fail to read William Gibson are doomed to repeatedly reinvent his style."

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

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Post by letitbeirie »

dvtrn wrote: post #136
bckr wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Just to add to the confusion there's also "Xennial" which is pronounced exactly the same way but refers to people ~15 years older.

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

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Post by jmkr »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes, the rescheduled MSG New Years Phish run, then summer tour.

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Post by CPLX »

_lqaf wrote: post #176
PragmaticPulp wrote: post #113

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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.

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…

> The Committee for Generational Distinctions is still trying to erase the existence of GenXers.

As a member of the Gen X community I am completely fine with this. Oh well, whatever, never mind us.

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

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Post by Finnucane »

gotaquestion wrote: post #46
burlesona wrote: post #21

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."…

Bauhaus and Midcentury Modern have incredible staying power. There hasn't been this kind of movement yet in web design. I think it is because we still don't know how we use it yet.

We got Modernism because Beaux Arts and Art Deco were too much fun, and then the Germans were like, Nein! No more fun! Only grids!
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