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> 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…
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.
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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.
There weren't enough of us. Also we were apathetic to everything. At least that's what I was told I wasn't really paying attention.
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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.
We're responsible for all the ills caused by things the Gen-Xers were apathetic about.
I like Filter Off, it's a breath of fresh air in the dating app space though the last time I looked at it it was mobile only which kind of dissuades those of us on the cheap end of the camera spectrum...
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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.
I struggle with phone UIs but that feels like mostly because I can’t be bothered to guess at the “intuitive” ways I can touch a screen that do different things across apps. For instance, some of my video apps are double tap to fill screen, others are outward pinch (is there a word for that?), or a press of certain buttons, or they just don’t do it.
In other words, in the long run will this even be a problem anymore?
Hire an artist, get some kind of fun mascot drawn, make some font choices that aren't the same ten fonts that ship with iOS, get them to do some comps of really out-there ideas to make it a fun place to come look for someone to date. Right now it's just the Grey Zone. Come here to look for a grey person to have boring grey dates with. Woohoo.
Change the look now and then. For holidays. Big ones, little ones, local ones, made-up ones. A real-world meeting place would do this, why shouldn't you? Talk to the same artist about doing that.
Hell, even pick a day in the middle of winter to be Grey Dates Day and have a monochrome skin for laughs. Whatever. Get some color and whimsey in there.
(The post ends with "we're hiring a creative director" so I guess they're kinda looking for an artist now.)
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…
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/11/android-12-the-ars-t...
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And as to grid systems…well, that isn’t exactly a recent development. Design and typography has been dealing and fighting about grid systems for a long, long time now. This is not a new discussion. At all. We just generally don’t think a lot about the full history of design.
> I'm a 33 year old straight male Completely off topic, but why do I need to know your sexuality? Seriously, can we stop doing this? It does not matter.