Designer is shocked to find out that the corpo-minimalist-copy-paste design isn't universally beloved. So it must be about age or gender or race or something ...
Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?
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Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?
#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
Boomer mode is when there's 13 advertising popups all over your screen and autoplaying videos on full volume.
Hear that honey? Free cruise! God I hate my wife. That Joe Brandon has bio labs in the Ukraine too! Election stealing sonuva…
That has nothing to do with this webpage's article.
Though, if you must know: The US has clearly said there are bio labs in Ukraine, and that they've built some and funded others.
The United States, through BTRP, has invested
approximately $200 million in Ukraine since
2005, supporting 46 Ukrainian laboratories,
health facilities, and diagnostic sites. [1]
BTRP has upgraded many laboratories for the
Ministry of Health and the State Food Safety
and Consumer Protection Service of Ukraine,
reaching Biosafety Level 2. In 2019, BTRP
constructed two laboratories for the latter,
one in Kyiv and one in Odesa. [2]
[1] https://media.defense.gov/2022/Mar/11/2002954612/-1/-1/0/FAC...
[2] https://ua.usembassy.gov/embassy/kyiv/sections-offices/defen...
[3] https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/05-829-Ukra...
Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?
#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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. This is really colored by who you're paying attention to. https://yesterweb.org/webring/members.html Literally animated gifts, tiled bgs, etc. > Many more people want the mini…
are you really saying that website you linked is a gen z design? looks like something out of 2004, looks horrible... or maybe it's not loading well on my phone. but that's not....
The website I linked is a list of members of a webring, because such a survey presents more examples than a single page can. The creators of the pages in the webring are predominantly gen z. The argument it is supporting is about which people want which strains of 90s web design to come back. If you look at a few pages in the webring you will see which strains these young people, at least, want. That's what I'm saying. Whether you consider it horrible is immaterial.
Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?
#314> 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…
I’d argue you should always design for yourself and build products you want. When your needs aren’t in alignment with your user’s needs then you’re the wrong person for the job anyway. User feedback is important for getting additional insights, but the implementation of the feedback should always feel correct to you too.
That's a little bit like saying a barber should only cut hair the way he'd want to wear it. Being part of a professional, maybe the defining feature is to be able to understand what customers want and to do it without bringing personal preference into it, unless that's asked for.
Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?
#315I'm late 40s and would prefer the Gen-Z mode in a dating app. Give me clean and utilitarian on a note taking app or something where I'm creating. Give me something fun (but usable) for something that should be fun.
Yes, it's more playful and maximalist. I'm honestly happy these days when I see something that doesn't look the internet equivalent of midcentury modern / Scandinavian interior design.
Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?
#316If we have to call it "Gen-Z" mode to get back some personality in software and interface design I'm all for it. I grew up with theme options on websites and software and desperately want it back. Windows Classic, Winamp, message boards with multiple theme options. I'm so tired of every interface being just floating text on a white background with excessive whitespace. A border differentiating parts of an interface s…
Whoa buddy, hang on, sometimes there's a little toggle that changes it to floating text on a black background. Only power users allowed, of course.
Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?
#317Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why does dark mode cause eye strain?
I suspect GP may have astigmatism. A girlfriend of mine had it and constantly would complain about my devices being in dark mode whenever she had to use them. She eventually showed me an article on how it does actually make text harder to focus on for them. https://medium.com/@h_locke/why-dark-mode-causes-more-access...
Yep I have that too.
That is a really good article by the way, thanks for sharing.
Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?
#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
>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.
> GenX got ignored. The baton was passed from Boomers to Millennials. I guess we were all taking a bathroom break or something. 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.
With no power comes no responsibility.
Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?
#319Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought the exact opposite. The narrator thinks the gen-z site is ugly, busy, whatever, and then realised that's what a segment of the market wants. You left out the "and then" part of the story.
To me, it's more like he begrudgingly admits that her views are probably representative of "Gen Z", and then makes a mock(ery) of what he thought he heard her say -- which ends up as a cheap caricature of her legitimate feedback. FWIW, I agree with her comments: it does feel sterile, in the sense that it looks like an app I'd schedule a doctor's appointment through, and it has a dorky, "safe" appearance, that evokes…
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Re: Light mode, Dark mode, and Gen-Z mode?
#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
> 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. laughs, then starts weeping in perpetual renter Honestly, I've seen more camaraderie between millennial & genZ than adversity. Both of us got the luck to be born to "interesting times".
I think what pulls Millennials and Gen-Z together so much compared to other generations is the Internet. We're connected in ways no previous generation has before.