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If you do something for an audience it is fine to alienate everyone else. It might even be required to avoid "one size fits all" Or moving away from the topic to attract a larger audience.
Exactly--"Kosher masala pussy" needs to be right exactly once.
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The author did design for Gen-Z aesthetics. At the end of the post, he says they may even complete the feature.
They did design it but in the whole post he was making fun of it. This Gen-Z mode that he designed is not made out of compassion for the users but rather as a parody of Gen-Z aesthetic. 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…
I'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.
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They did design it but in the whole post he was making fun of it. This Gen-Z mode that he designed is not made out of compassion for the users but rather as a parody of Gen-Z aesthetic. 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…
Why do you think it was parody or an attack? It fully admits that millennial design is intentionally boring and sterile and it tries to figure out what Gen-Z wants instead.
There is a way to design a more "fun" experience but just slapping the biggest tropes on like your users are 5 year olds is probably not it.
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Why do you think it was parody or an attack? It fully admits that millennial design is intentionally boring and sterile and it tries to figure out what Gen-Z wants instead.
From the "You are unique. You are different." in the screenshot which is parodying the style so hard, but also the random clap emoji. It feels like googling "Gen-Z tropes" and then applying every single of them. But also the "Of course you are." which is extremely dismissive. There is a way to design a more "fun" experience but just slapping the biggest tropes on like your users are 5 year olds is probably not it.
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> Minimalism is has probably already peaked I hope so, I thought that the original intent of it was anchored in a functional way of designing UIs. Now it seems to have been taken to absurd levels where important controls are hidden behind modals, dropdown, hover states, popovers etc. instead of just being visible and available when you want to use them. I really don't understand this but have given up pushing back on…
I think hiding controls is driven by the limitations of phone screens, and mobile-first thinking leads to substandard desktop or tablet experiences.
This IMO is what made Win8 so bad.
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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…
So that site is interesting to me because it comes across as retro more than anything else. 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…
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Well, I imagine it to be a larger work. But it just came to me now as a sentence / fragment of a larger one. I haven't written it yet...should I do this?
This was fun to read because of the pomposity, but I'm afraid it might get rather dull when extended in the same vein.