The example of 'Gen-Z mode' is a product that acts as a party invitation. Wouldn't it be more fair to compare it to something like evite.com, which has similar attention-grabbing animations, but probably cater to previous generations?
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#262As a product manager, I read this and found a founder clinically dismissive of user perspectives and feedback that doesn't align with their own internal viewpoints. Confirmation bias to the n-th degree. His quote of her feedback ("It's so exciting. Every time I open it, it makes me happy. Sometimes they have doge pop up!") is almost certainly embellished and is a non-empathetic take on a genuine user perspective. The…
"Subtle Curry Dating" is a reference to the Facebook group "subtle curry traits", which itself may be an offshoot of the "subtle asian traits" group (I forget which came first).
These are both examples of Facebook groups aimed at a large but unconnected group of people from similar backgrounds. I think they can be fundamentally considered to be "subreddits, but on Facebook". Imagine /r/BlackPeopleTwitter but for (South/)Asians.
As someone with the right context in the target demo, I find "Subtle Curry Dating" to be a hilarious name. Not only that, I think I'd be more likely to find someone I mesh with on that service than the same service with a different name.
Edit: some cursory googling revealed that "Matzoball Dating" might be a similar sort of in-joke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matzo_Ball
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#263As a product manager, I read this and found a founder clinically dismissive of user perspectives and feedback that doesn't align with their own internal viewpoints. Confirmation bias to the n-th degree. His quote of her feedback ("It's so exciting. Every time I open it, it makes me happy. Sometimes they have doge pop up!") is almost certainly embellished and is a non-empathetic take on a genuine user perspective. The…
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#264Every 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…
“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.
I feel similarly about macOS. The Snow Leopard/Mojave-era rounded-edges were at least passable. But what they did in Big Sur (re edges, padding and colours) is straight up comedic. Unfortunately, it appears to be the platform with the best selection of desktop apps.
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#2651. You made a boring design. It's not a gen-z thing to dislike sterile, clinical designs that look more suited to businesses.
2. This is an ad, and seems like it was intentionally written as flamebait.
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#266The Partiful screenshot in the article reminds me of mid-2000s TV-focused media player UIs (Windows Media Center, XBMC/Kodi etc). Must be really awkard to use in a web/mobile context.
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#267I am a little surprised to see no one question the author's description or assumption of "Gen Z". As someone presumably from Gen Z, I find both interfaces either bad or terrible. The partiful design is outright tacky and looks terrible (nothing homogeneous, questionable design choices etc) but Filteroff has so much whitespace it feels like it was designed by soulless corps at Uber or Facebook who just studied from Pi…
I'm pretty sure it's just intentional flamebait to promote their product.
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#268What amuses me reading the comments here is thinking that among characteristics of how people behave, the "gen-" one may have one of the highest standard deviations among them. The bell curve of what a GenX likes is nearly flat, vs a GenY which is equally flat, but it's non-flatness just a little bit to the left (or right). Repeat for all Gen's.
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#269Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Ritalin?
I blame some late Gen-Xer who got stuck in a basement and got too obcessed with gaining likes on the internet they just morphed into this one-weird-trick pony with their clipart coming exclusively from 90's Magazines that come with a CD kinda thing
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#270The author is close to an epiphany, but I feel doesn't quite reach it. Yes, the last few years has seen iOS design trends to learn towards sterile apps where there is little uniqueness across apps. This is good for novice users, the consistency makes it easier to onboard into a new app. The downside however is that many apps feel the same and have little differentiation. The solution is to invest in UX and design to…
I miss skeuomorphic.