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This person wrote an entire blogpost on how to understand and compassionately design for Gen-Z aesthetics and your response is to slam them for... not understanding and compassionately designing for Gen-Z aesthetics? Come on.
The post I read was a person defensively justifying their choice to not design for Gen-Z aesthetics.
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> And gosh, the names are horrifically cringey. "Sappho Dating", "Matzoball Dating", "Subtle Curry Dating"? "Sappho"/"sapphic" are fairly common self-descriptors among teens/twentysomethings on a few subcultural niches like Tumblr. Ironically your own comment is an example of the tendency you decry; you're clearly not familiar with the markets at play here.
Haha, I appreciate this reply. Sure, I'll be up front and admit that I didn't actually get use of matzoball dating and subtle curry dating/etc, but as an LGBTQ+ individual, I think I understand how the Sappho descriptor is trying to be used here (hey! It's a LGBTQ+ dating app!), and yet I still think it's a misapplied pattern match? And that's what led me to think that the keyword uses are also less-than-very-good re…
[Edit] my english is bad... added some changes to grammar.
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If the UI takes precedence over funtionality you don't pass financial audits.
sounds like a reason to stick with intuit and microsoft
Gen-Z mode would get me more excited, interested to use the app for its intended purpose. Shouldn't all apps aspire the same?
You must hate Hacker News then.
HN's clean interface means you focus on the articles, and one would hope (though not in your case it seems) take it atleast a little seriously/professionally in how you interact.
A speed dating app like filteroff? It's more casual, you should be at ease, it shouldn't remind you of MS teams.
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I like your sentiment, but I think this only works at the start. After the initial MVC phase, you discover additional potential target audiences, and often (but not always) it makes more sense to apply empathy and adapt the software to also benefit their needs, rather than just abandoning then as "not the intended audience".
MVC phase? That's where my projects end, not start... Betting that was MVP! (Actually they start there, too, to be honest)
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The post I read was a person defensively justifying their choice to not design for Gen-Z aesthetics.
The author did design for Gen-Z aesthetics. At the end of the post, he says they may even complete the feature.
I had fun reading it but I feel it is a bad business move to attack your user base, and I assume that they have more users around the 18yo of the spectrum than 75.
Would he also make fun of a boomer mode, with large buttons everywhere and "get me out of the app and just call person" feature?
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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 sayin…
It's almost like a charicature of 90s web design rather than actual 90's web design.
To be clear, I'm not saying they have bad taste. What I'm saying is that there's always design subcommunities who want retro this or edgy that, and they're kinda ridiculed or marveled at or admired for their distinction, or whatever, and then the majority of users look for something else for daily life.
It's a kind of design sampling bias or something. The huge swaths of genz who don't care or who like the minimalist stuff, or who say that webring is too much are off on TikTok or some other platform not bothering.
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…
The problem with ALL of these stupid mobile designs is always twofold: 1) The important information is rarely the obvious thing on the page. Partiful! Yay, party! Where? When? Cost? Oh, that grey on grey blob. Even filteroff, WTF am I searching for ? Why does your "Ready for date night" take up 1/3 of the damn screen instead of something useful to me ? 2) Interactable objects aren't obvious. Presumable that stupid do…