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At the time I was shocked - since when did the google UI become the traditional? They really had no clue how long it took us to get things look right.
Design trends come and go. Minimalism is has probably already peaked, and typically when a trend peaks the next trend intentionally runs against it. The "gen-z" look reminds me of the early web when people thought that and were really exciting html elements. Those were noisy pages, but they had the feeling of an enthusiastic hobbyist scrapbook, and that was part of the appeal. "I could make something cool like that."…
Literally the thing that went through my mind when reading the article: "the 90s/early 00s design is coming back!"
Time to start replacing the cursor with unicorns barfing rainbows (or nyan-cats, whatever you prefer!) and adding on-click confetti explosions to our web pages again.
What an exciting time to be alive!
I find this weird but i've always sort of resented generations (Boomer, GenX, etc) that aren't mine (Millenial) but Gen Z is the first one i've really liked. I find the general Gen Z humour to be very funny. I love their mercurial embrace of trends and tearing down of sacred cows. The way they approach work/life balance, call out stupid cultural norms. Their attitude and acceptance of people not like themselves. By t…
The 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…
What visual affordances? Those were all removed in "the great flattening".
Completely off topic, but why do I need to know your sexuality? Seriously, can we stop doing this? It does not matter.
I find this weird but i've always sort of resented generations (Boomer, GenX, etc) that aren't mine (Millenial) but Gen Z is the first one i've really liked. I find the general Gen Z humour to be very funny. I love their mercurial embrace of trends and tearing down of sacred cows. The way they approach work/life balance, call out stupid cultural norms. Their attitude and acceptance of people not like themselves. By t…
What are the actual differences between millenials and gen z? I would argue both are characterized by the fact that there is no single fit-all characteristic. There is no common pop-culture to define a generation any more.
Gen Z didn't believe anything they were told to begin with, because while Millennials grew up in the 90s and early 00s and got some optimism in our culture, America has been a polarized, rapidly-changing nation for pretty much all of Gen Z's time.
The tl;dr I'd say is: "Millennials had our expectations dashed, and Gen Z didn't build up the expectations to begin with."
(Note that I'm not commenting on whether this rapid change is good/bad/malicious/whatever. Just that how we've planned for and lived our lives has changed a lot in the last 15 years.)
I first noticed this "Gen-Z" mode trend when I played Mario Kart on Wii. Compared to N64 or SNES, the screen was so busy. I honestly had a hard time keeping track of where my player was and where the "track" was compared to all the colorful fast-moving background cruft. I'm not a gamer so maybe I'm just not used to it. Fortnite seems like another example of how "Gen-Z" and headachy a digital environment can be. For s…
Are you sure the N64 and SNES Mario Karts weren't just less busy due to hardware constraints? N64 had limited polygon count compared with modern gaming systems. Also, the Wii came out in what, 2006? It's definitely a millennial gaming system.
In fact I can't think of another product that's more quintessentially millennial than the Wii.
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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.
Maybe I’m overly sensitive, but I’m really tired of ADHD ableist jokes like this one. With the controversy and struggles of medication for ADHD, implying that the only functional ADHD brain is a medicated one just frankly sucks.