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At age 50 now, I'd prefer a Gen X mode where the font size is 125% and the text is high contrast.

PaulKeeble 5y ago
Just in general its nice to have an interface that highlights the right features and makes it clear what is a button, what is text and the sort of interactions I will have before I click on it. All the research on UIs done in the 70s and 80s seems to have been abandoned in the pursuit of a new look that is less easy to understand. The amount of time wasted in Windows constantly changing the interface skin (especially the new taskbar that has lost a lot functionality in Windows 11) instead of fixing core issues in the OS or expanding elsewhere is a concerning cost of human time. I suspect many people buy "pretty" rather than functional but its kind of annoying the amount as an industry we waste on trends that achieve nothing other than a make over.
jamil7 5y ago
Boomer mode is when there's 13 advertising popups all over your screen and autoplaying videos on full volume.
- IncRnd 5y ago
  Someone of age 50 in 2022 is part of Gen X not Boomer gen.
  - jamil7 5y ago
    I'm aware of that.
  - fmajid 5y ago
    I think jamil was implying Boomers are too stupid to know how to install an ad-blocker. As a Gen-X, I’m inclined to agree.
    - olyjohn 5y ago
      Wow you're old as fuck and calling the slightly older group stupid.
      - cgriswald 5y ago
        I don’t think they’re stupid but somehow my dad, who could always program my grandpa’s VCR and put together high end AV setups in his youth can’t set up his own entertainment center equipment anymore. I struggle with phone UIs but that feels like mostly because I can’t be bothered to guess at the “intuitive” ways I can touch a screen that do different things across apps. For instance, some of my video apps are double tap to fill screen, others are outward pinch (is there a word for that?), or a press of certain buttons, or they just don’t do it.
- gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
  Hear that honey? Free cruise! God I hate my wife. That Joe Brandon has bio labs in the Ukraine too! Election stealing sonuva…
  - IncRnd 5y ago
    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] And from the US Embassy in Ukraine: 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] The 2005 agreement between the US DOD and Ministry of Health of Ukraine, signed in Kiev, is here. [3] [1] https://media.defense.gov/2022/Mar/11/2002954612/-1/-1/0/FACT-SHEET-THE-DEPARTMENT-OF-DEFENSE'S-COOPERATIVE-THREAT-REDUCTION-PROGRAM-BIOLOGICAL-THREAT-REDUCTION-PROGRAM-ACTIVITIES-IN-UKRAINE.PDF https://media.defense.gov/2022/Mar/11/2002954612/-1/-1/0/FAC... [2] https://ua.usembassy.gov/embassy/kyiv/sections-offices/defense-threat-reduction-office/biological-threat-reduction-program/ https://ua.usembassy.gov/embassy/kyiv/sections-offices/defen... [3] https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/05-829-Ukraine-Weapons.pdf https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/05-829-Ukra...
bckr 5y ago
Eh, as a Zillenial, I like it when my eyes don't hurt so I'd probably use that mode too
- dvtrn 5y ago
  I thought it was "Zennial", but then again for the longest time I also thought the "millennials" were "Gen-Y" and that Billy Joel actually started the fire, so wtf do I even know anymore about what generations are called
  - letitbeirie 5y ago
    Just to add to the confusion there's also "Xennial" which is pronounced exactly the same way but refers to people ~15 years older.
    - saurik 5y ago
      Huh: I always pronounced this one "ex-ennial".
ghaff 5y ago
Yeah. Part of the same simple/spare design fashion is small grey fonts.
daveslash 5y ago
Yeah, I wonder if these trends the author is picking up on (i.e. "Millennial Boring on Purpose" and "Millennial Minimalism" vs the Gen-Z "Excitement" and sparkles) is more of an actual age thing vs. a generational thing? I'm still in my 30s, and I prefer the Millennial Minimalism now, but I didn't always. And I find myself bumping up the font size to 125% once in a while - and I expect to be doing it more and more as the years progress.
- gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
  Yea, from what I remember of the leading edge Gen Y/ trailing Gen X culture in early 00s it was similarly fucken crazy and eclectic. Cat photos with cut out style animation playing guitars. The whole electroclash thing. Just watch the music video for The Knife’s heartbeats. I associate the sterile corpo chic with 2015 onwards because in my young adult days (2011-2014) we were wearing Aztec print stuff, ripped 501 jeans and iridescent shell jackets with fresh prince colour vomit snap backs, bright plastic sunglasses and abusing psychedelic amphetamines like it was 1988
- omgmajk 5y ago
  Same, and I agree fully. I saw the websites that came out when flash/shockwave was new and they were DECKED OUT and that sh*t went sour way too fast. I went from crazy designs to "millennial minimalist" as soon as I turned 30+.

Just in general its nice to have an interface that highlights the right features and makes it clear what is a button, what is text and the sort of interactions I will have before I click on it. All the research on UIs done in the 70s and 80s seems to have been abandoned in the pursuit of a new look that is less easy to understand. The amount of time wasted in Windows constantly changing the interface skin (especially the new taskbar that has lost a lot functionality in Windows 11) instead of fixing core issues in the OS or expanding elsewhere is a concerning cost of human time. I suspect many people buy "pretty" rather than functional but its kind of annoying the amount as an industry we waste on trends that achieve nothing other than a make over.

jamil7 5y ago

Boomer mode is when there's 13 advertising popups all over your screen and autoplaying videos on full volume.

IncRnd 5y ago
Someone of age 50 in 2022 is part of Gen X not Boomer gen.
- jamil7 5y ago
  I'm aware of that.
- fmajid 5y ago
  I think jamil was implying Boomers are too stupid to know how to install an ad-blocker. As a Gen-X, I’m inclined to agree.
  - olyjohn 5y ago
    Wow you're old as fuck and calling the slightly older group stupid.
    - cgriswald 5y ago
      I don’t think they’re stupid but somehow my dad, who could always program my grandpa’s VCR and put together high end AV setups in his youth can’t set up his own entertainment center equipment anymore. I struggle with phone UIs but that feels like mostly because I can’t be bothered to guess at the “intuitive” ways I can touch a screen that do different things across apps. For instance, some of my video apps are double tap to fill screen, others are outward pinch (is there a word for that?), or a press of certain buttons, or they just don’t do it.
gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
Hear that honey? Free cruise! God I hate my wife. That Joe Brandon has bio labs in the Ukraine too! Election stealing sonuva…
- IncRnd 5y ago
  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] And from the US Embassy in Ukraine: 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] The 2005 agreement between the US DOD and Ministry of Health of Ukraine, signed in Kiev, is here. [3] [1] https://media.defense.gov/2022/Mar/11/2002954612/-1/-1/0/FACT-SHEET-THE-DEPARTMENT-OF-DEFENSE'S-COOPERATIVE-THREAT-REDUCTION-PROGRAM-BIOLOGICAL-THREAT-REDUCTION-PROGRAM-ACTIVITIES-IN-UKRAINE.PDF https://media.defense.gov/2022/Mar/11/2002954612/-1/-1/0/FAC... [2] https://ua.usembassy.gov/embassy/kyiv/sections-offices/defense-threat-reduction-office/biological-threat-reduction-program/ https://ua.usembassy.gov/embassy/kyiv/sections-offices/defen... [3] https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/05-829-Ukraine-Weapons.pdf https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/05-829-Ukra...

bckr 5y ago

Eh, as a Zillenial, I like it when my eyes don't hurt so I'd probably use that mode too

dvtrn 5y ago
I thought it was "Zennial", but then again for the longest time I also thought the "millennials" were "Gen-Y" and that Billy Joel actually started the fire, so wtf do I even know anymore about what generations are called
- letitbeirie 5y ago
  Just to add to the confusion there's also "Xennial" which is pronounced exactly the same way but refers to people ~15 years older.
  - saurik 5y ago
    Huh: I always pronounced this one "ex-ennial".

ghaff 5y ago

Yeah. Part of the same simple/spare design fashion is small grey fonts.

daveslash 5y ago

Yeah, I wonder if these trends the author is picking up on (i.e. "Millennial Boring on Purpose" and "Millennial Minimalism" vs the Gen-Z "Excitement" and sparkles) is more of an actual age thing vs. a generational thing? I'm still in my 30s, and I prefer the Millennial Minimalism now, but I didn't always. And I find myself bumping up the font size to 125% once in a while - and I expect to be doing it more and more as the years progress.

gunfighthacksaw 5y ago
Yea, from what I remember of the leading edge Gen Y/ trailing Gen X culture in early 00s it was similarly fucken crazy and eclectic. Cat photos with cut out style animation playing guitars. The whole electroclash thing. Just watch the music video for The Knife’s heartbeats. I associate the sterile corpo chic with 2015 onwards because in my young adult days (2011-2014) we were wearing Aztec print stuff, ripped 501 jeans and iridescent shell jackets with fresh prince colour vomit snap backs, bright plastic sunglasses and abusing psychedelic amphetamines like it was 1988
omgmajk 5y ago
Same, and I agree fully. I saw the websites that came out when flash/shockwave was new and they were DECKED OUT and that sh*t went sour way too fast. I went from crazy designs to "millennial minimalist" as soon as I turned 30+.