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

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

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Post by ryandrake »

cpcallen wrote: post #213
asciimov wrote: post #137

Millennial here, I welcome anything to break up the current design aesthetics. I never liked material design and designs from Apple and Google both look tired. I did dark modes before it was cool, but now that I'm getting older, I want some kind of grey mode. Something that doesn't feel like I'm looking down the barrel of a flashlight nor something that's gonna cause eyestrain. As for all the flashy doodads and movem…

I was wondering how long it would take before I saw someone advocating for webpage backgrounds to be grey again. Mosaic (and later Netscape) had the right idea from the start. It's only too bad it's taken so long for us to get back to where we started. Sincerely, an old curmudgeon. P.S.: Get off my lawn!

I want web page backgrounds to respect the defaults I set in the browser. Remember those settings? They are still in your browser but the first thing a web designer does nowadays is force background and font colors, text sizes, and so on, totally disregarding the user’s set preferences.

Now get off MY lawn!

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

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Post by [deleted] »

olyjohn wrote: post #202
5ESS wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

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

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Post by wrycoder »

__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…

Surprisingly, his site seemed to load faster for me.

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

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Post by aasasd »

I'm way into my middle age, and I find the author an obnoxious and boring stuck-up who thinks that our collective recovery from the 90s' excess is now a sacred cow. Meanwhile, the discussed design is just a rather restrained and so-so exemplar of post-Tumblr aesthetics—which by themselves are the first good visual trend in ages. If the author thinks that this is bad, I wish upon him a prolonged experience with approximately-15-year-olds, with some Japanese TV on the side. And if the author is like this at 33, I probably don't want to read his writings ten years from now.

Perhaps the author should also learn that just like there's a ‘fashion statement’, so there's a ‘design statement’—though I'm not sure of a proper term for that.

P.S. The imagined ‘Filteroff for Gen-Z’ screenshot is barely less sterile than the baseline, and it's almost textbook corporate bells-and-whistles to ‘reach the young audience’. Perhaps the author would want to run the imagined design by Anya again.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

ryandrake wrote: post #271
cpcallen wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was wondering how long it would take before I saw someone advocating for webpage backgrounds to be grey again. Mosaic (and later Netscape) had the right idea from the start. It's only too bad it's taken so long for us to get back to where we started. Sincerely, an old curmudgeon. P.S.: Get off my lawn!

I want web page backgrounds to respect the defaults I set in the browser. Remember those settings? They are still in your browser but the first thing a web designer does nowadays is force background and font colors, text sizes, and so on, totally disregarding the user’s set preferences. Now get off MY lawn!

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

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Post by wrycoder »

lambic wrote: post #250
zthrowaway wrote: post #65

> 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.

If it doesn't matter, why does it bother you?

OP wants you to know he’s unusual.

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

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Post by jdrc »

Sebb767 wrote: post #115
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.

It's not the same as in Windows 3.1 at all. We now have shadows, gradients, far better colors and a lot of smooth animations [0]. The basics are the same, but if you compare the designs side by side, you'll find more differences than similarities. I feel that there was a transition period were you really needed to show of the new capabilities and colors that your computers can do now. But with current trends, this wo…

windows 3.1 used contour depth perception. That is one of our fastest perceptual algorithms, truly a gift from nature. 2022 throws that in the trashcan.
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