"when we use our phones, we blink shockingly less than usual" great, now i'll be blinking manually for the rest of the video
@kadenhansen
3 ай бұрын
You mean rest of the day. That might just be me.
@taradid409
3 ай бұрын
I saw an article that says because of the way our eyes move it affects how we read on a computer versus reading a book. It is easier to read a book.
@foolishlyfoolhardy6004
3 ай бұрын
Fun fact: you're always blinking manually. Blinking is a learned behaviour, not a reflex or instinctive behaviour. That's why babies barely blink.
@Tongokai
3 ай бұрын
@@foolishlyfoolhardy6004is that why you blink when the wind is blowing to?
@foolishlyfoolhardy6004
3 ай бұрын
@@Tongokai you learn how, yes.
@SpacyNG
3 ай бұрын
10:06 If letters/paper is light mode, we had dark mode way earlier: chalkboards.
@lolo_o4309
3 ай бұрын
Paper and palm-leaf manuscripts which would be "light theme" are both older than chalkboard. You could however argue that cave paintings were dark mode depending on the rock that was used.
@shook_man_18
3 ай бұрын
@@lolo_o4309 Our planet can essentially be reduced down to a bright spec on a black background amongst many other bright specs. Dark mode.
@braynjohnson4302
3 ай бұрын
Well then what about stone/clay tablets?
@maighstir3003
3 ай бұрын
@@braynjohnson4302 Gray mode?
@juanconstenla1171
2 ай бұрын
@@lolo_o4309 loved the cave self answer, and now seeing the comments about clay and gray mode know I'm thinking that sumerian had the OG sepia
@adrielbeling139
3 ай бұрын
My friends use light mode discord in school so if a teacher glances at their screen he or she wont notice that it's discord, and you can also switch to google classroom or docs without the screen flashing from dark to bright.
@40watt53
3 ай бұрын
I love that holy shit
@somexne
3 ай бұрын
My guy is a quiet genius.
@abhishekak9619
3 ай бұрын
which genius came up with that.
@kev3d
3 ай бұрын
Heaven forbid your friend use class time for, you know, school.
@JustAGun_
3 ай бұрын
@@kev3d If they get the work done who cares if they goof off imo
@Bene31
3 ай бұрын
I use Eye Comfort mode on every device. This really helped. My night mode filter is set to 75% on Windows, maximum on my phone. You'll get used to it really quickly, you can't go without it after using it a few days.
@Anonymous-sb9rr
3 ай бұрын
I've been using f.lux on PC since the year 26 BC. For the past few years I've also used a program called Dimmer to make the screen darker than the lowest brightness setting.
@tangomango2353
3 ай бұрын
Omg I've been using it since I first got a phone. I can't imagine my life without it
@BaroTheMadman
3 ай бұрын
You really get used to it. When I look at pics I've seen on my phone on other people's phones and everything is so... blue. It feels strange
@capuchinosofia4771
3 ай бұрын
Ikr? It happens to me too and it feels so weird! Like im living in a warmer world hahah@@BaroTheMadman
@your_average_cultured_dude
2 ай бұрын
it makes my eyes hurt
@Owlboi
2 ай бұрын
Light mode strains my eyes, Dark mode doesn't. That's all I need
@DonaldFranciszekTusk
23 күн бұрын
Maybe buy better screen
@JoHiPe
22 күн бұрын
....or just don't stare at a screen all day
@ajaxbuchann5243
19 күн бұрын
For me it’s the opposite tbh. I physically can’t read text on dark mode
@ppike__
18 күн бұрын
@@JoHiPe like not work on a computer?
@Salamander002
14 күн бұрын
did you consider adjusting the brightness?
@kevinbroberg3504
3 ай бұрын
I adore the vibes of this video. The clarity of thought to ask questions of your questions, the human stakes of proving your friends wrong, the tight script presenting the results of tons of research and academic results without dragging. I found this channel while working on weekend projects like a year ago and those projects have been completely shelved for more than 6 months, but this has got me feeling motivated to dust them back off
@enhydralutra
3 ай бұрын
I started having double vision issues a few years ago. My optometrist couldn't identify a problem, and so I started searching the internet for it (I know, sketchy thing to do, but I was desperate). I stumbled across a bunch of posts on reddit about people with bad astigmatism who were noticing that dark mode was causing massive eye strain, and who recommended switching back to light mode. I've been using light mode ever since, and have had no issues with double vision. So no, dark mode isn't always better for your eyes.
@jackb7705
3 ай бұрын
I also have astigmatism and find dark mode hurts my eyes more than light mode. I find it odd when people say it’s better for your eyes
@Makisetutuloo
3 ай бұрын
Same here, dark mode makes it hard for me to see because of my astigmatism. And as she said, if you find light mode too bright... Then try to brighten your surroundings.
@thefrostedforest
3 ай бұрын
I have no eye issues, at most I'm a light sensitive, but dark mode has also always caused strain for me and is so much harder for me to read.
@sunken3840
3 ай бұрын
I've been having a similar issue lately and been using dark mode for years. I'm gonna switch and see if it makes a difference. Edit: I just switched windows to light mode and oh boy will this take getting used to again
@apricot8301
3 ай бұрын
Guess I'm keeping my double vision.
@jaytheroguebard
15 күн бұрын
this is your first video I've ever seen and I absolutely _LOVE_ your editing and filming/style!!! I'm sure it takes a long time, which is extremely impressive, but it's also very engaging and entertaining---solid 10/10
@LilBurntCrust99
3 ай бұрын
Me: Dark mode actually works well and doesn't strain your eyes and stuff Sabrina: *Yesn't* .
@edgarwalk5637
3 ай бұрын
Me: my eyes are strained by dark mode in VS Code.
@mathewkloepfer664
3 ай бұрын
@@edgarwalk5637 You can actually customize all of that! In your settings.json (for user or workspace) you can change the colors of everything. You can even do it in cpp_properties.json if you want conditional coloring/highlighting based on any number of things like language of the file - maybe you want c variables to be red and c++ to be blue. Everything you can set in settings.json files are also changeable in the settings menu. It's a highly customizable lightweight-IDE. I just presented this to my organization as a replacement for Eclipse since it has native Git integration and extensions are so good.
@AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable
2 ай бұрын
Well it's usually also poor design and terrible looking design, because what they mostly do is they invert the colors which looks terrible. But... they can sell it as dark mode which will get more customers. Dark mode is about clicks and customers from PR - not about good design or the individual user at all. It's basically a hoax. But I must admit that Apple does one thing good: They can sell pooh as if it is gold.
@mischake
2 ай бұрын
Stroop test has a problem: It is super easy to ignore the letters of the word if English isn't your first language and also if you have dyslexia
@lunalovegood2093
Ай бұрын
or just take your glasses off
@squidgrill
3 ай бұрын
Light mode is usually easier to read, because light text on dark backgrounds glow, which can blur the letters together. I don't personally find it a problem and usually set my theme depending on the time of day, but I know a lot of people who do. Both options are definitely important to have.
@wakawakatakeover
3 ай бұрын
Personally I actually feel like the exact reverse is true for me. When trying to read black text on a glowing, white background for a long period of time, my eyes get tired from all the bright light which blooms, making the delicate lines of the text even thinner and therefore making it very difficult to read. When reading black text on a white background on my computer, if the text is particularly long at all, I will usually have to lean in closer to the screen and squint just a little to be able to see it better. Meanwhile with dark modes, I can lean back more comfortably and read the white text on black backgrounds much easier. This, of course changes once I'm on a phone or tablet screen, when the screen is pretty close to my face. It's not a big problem for me, but can be a bit annoying, which is why I prefer dark mode options for websites when they are offered. But yes! Having options for different people with different needs is definitely a better choice for everyone involved, really! Honestly, I think that the best option is to have something that's baseline usable for everyone, but to have oodles and oodles of customization options for people who need it, or for those who just like to fiddle with those kinds of things because they're fun! (And I am one of those people lol)
@valasdarkholme6255
3 ай бұрын
Ideally I prefer grey on black.
@BonaparteBardithion
3 ай бұрын
@@valasdarkholme6255 Personally, for documents/ebooks, I like black on sepia. Maybe the trick is not using straight white unless you really need the contrast.
@RightAngleProductions
3 ай бұрын
Oh my god I know you
@ruekurei88
3 ай бұрын
My eyes are pretty light sensitive, so I need dark mode and it's a lot easier to read. I can barely see a single line on a white piece of paper for example. If designers prioritised softer colours like Sepia or other colours besides white, it would be good, but it's usually just white or off white, and those just burn my eyes pretty much.
@Maker0824
3 ай бұрын
I cannot use light mode. I have very sensitive eyes and always have to use the minimum brightness settings on devices, often even using accessibility settings to reduce the brightness below the minimum. Dark mode is so amazing for me. if I have too much white on my screen for too long my eyes hurt. if I accidentally turn my brightness up and don’t realise I can get a headache and have no idea why until I realise I accidentally turned my brightness up. Not offering dark mode can make me just not use a product.
@EspeonMistress00
3 ай бұрын
"OMG He is just like me fr" But seriously someone understands. I am prone to light sensitive migraines
@ammocandoit
3 ай бұрын
Same
@pcdm43145
3 ай бұрын
Same here; my screens are all extra dark, every OS & app set to dark mode, and I use the dark background/large font "Read Mode" in Firefox for every website with significant amounts of text. I can't read anything on Wikipedia without it.
@slimysomething
3 ай бұрын
yes, light mode actually hurts to look at. To me it's not really a debate of what's better it's an accessibility feature.
@tookitogo
3 ай бұрын
And this is precisely why the Mac has had an “invert” screen mode for decades. Dark mode is fundamentally just an improved version of that, where hues don’t get inverted, too. Similarly, many video and hoots editing programs were “dark mode” long before that was a thing, because you didn’t want a bright user interface drowning out a dimly lit scene you were editing. Both of those are functional examples of why light-text-on-dark-background has real uses. The modern dark mode obsession, in turn, has nothing to do with needs, it’s just a fad…
@MegaLokopo
14 күн бұрын
A lot of people don't consider that any issues you have with dark mode are likely just caused from bad design. In light mode you have black text surounded by a black background, until you look closer and realize that the black text is actually many different colors, dark mode is often just pure white text. Proper dark mode would have text that is properly shaded red yellow and orange with a black back ground. Because then you have less eye strain from the white colors, but you still get the contrast benefits for readability.
@thisismissem
3 ай бұрын
Meanwhile they added some "super bright" mode that some videos trigger that totally ignores your screen brightness settings and just blasts you with brightness
@wombat4583
3 ай бұрын
This is why I hate adaptive lighting. More than which layout you prefer, consistency and expectancy are your friends.
@TurtleKwitty
3 ай бұрын
HDR content yeah... fucking hate it
@Call-me-Al
3 ай бұрын
@@wombat4583 Disabling that is one of the first things I do on a new phone.
@JoeTrickey
3 ай бұрын
@@Call-me-Al can you disable HDR video from displaying in apps (Instagram, etc)? You may have just saved my life
@AGuy-vq9qp
3 ай бұрын
@@TurtleKwitty Embrace the future
@DerUnbbekante
3 ай бұрын
Well, during lockdown I wanted a way to differentiate between privat and work screentime. To separate them "emotionally" so to say. As a consequence I switched the work device and all the applications to light mode. All my private stuff stayed on the dark side and to be honest, I real enjoyed that separation and nothing has changed to today.
@fernandab5821
2 ай бұрын
Thats clever, thanks for sharing i Will try that too
@X4Alpha4X
29 күн бұрын
10/10 on that ad. no seriously. i didn't even realize it until about 2/3rds into it. felt more like product placement than watching a commercial and i think thats the perfect way to include a sponsor!
@hiiamelecktro4985
3 ай бұрын
I feel like I don’t understand that last bit. The new iPones features just offer more customization for those who want it. If a user wants to make their apps ugly and barely visible, that’s their choice. They have to make the active decision to do that. I don’t understand why that’s a bad thing? Or how this means that dark mode has gone too far?
@subitone
3 ай бұрын
Plus the iPhone homescreen is a tiny fraction of all dark mode uses. They just included it to justify the hyperbolic title.
@SynthAir
2 ай бұрын
I find it ironic that while iOS is at times maligned for the lack of customization it provides compared to Android, when Apple does make it customizable people complain about that as well.
@Pawtism_Legacy
16 күн бұрын
I don’t know if this is consistent with your content because this is the first video I’ve ever scene of this channel but the editing is done beautifully how did you do that?☠️☠️
@YesInMyBackyard
28 күн бұрын
objectively I watch your videos because your filming and editing skills are amazing. It makes me envious and makes me want to be a better creator.
@brandOn_pc
11 күн бұрын
That ending was fantastic! Definitely don’t watch a 13 minute video about black and white screens at night! 😵
@scrunkliestscrimbo9981
17 күн бұрын
2:38 omg this made me so paranoid, i just know i'm gonna start intentionally blinking way more than i need to when looking at my screen now.
@falpsdsqglthnsac
3 ай бұрын
i find it interesting how dogmatic people can be about dark mode. recently my brother asked me why i use light mode in the nyt games app and he was completely baffled when i said i thought the dark mode was ugly.
@mglouise97
3 ай бұрын
NYT games has a dark mode???
@du42bz
3 ай бұрын
Sorry comrade, but please face the wall now
@eglol
3 ай бұрын
I usually use light mode unless it was designed for dark mode (stuff like Discord) and/or leave it at default
@falpsdsqglthnsac
3 ай бұрын
@@mglouise97 yeah and it's ugly
@macaroon_nuggets8008
3 ай бұрын
I thought anarchist are all about free choice and stuff@@du42bz
@dmas7749
Ай бұрын
"Good news you can now select an accent color that barely shows up anywhere besides file explorer" - Windows don't sell me this please, XP let me choose the font on like 12 different settings.
@verafeiyd
3 ай бұрын
editing/transitions are on point this video, keep crushing it AiP crew!
@tookitogo
3 ай бұрын
Early computers (like pre-1980s) were all light characters (and later graphics) on dark backgrounds. Early computer graphics were mostly with vector displays, which cannot draw dark lines on light backgrounds. Once graphical user interfaces began to be researched, and we had high-resolution bitmap displays, researchers figured out that “page white” displays with black text was better.* Oh. As I was writing this, we got to 9:30… *In Doug Engelbart’s “Mother of All Demos” in 1968, where the world first saw the computer mouse, it used a white background.
@barigamb
3 ай бұрын
This is like the first sponsored segment I've watched fully for a while. These videos are crazy good.
@wearwolf2500
3 ай бұрын
The thing I noticed with going through the tests is that typically I did better on whichever one came second. Probably because I was more used to the test. I mainly prefer light mode because it tends to have better contrast. Black text on a white background compared to light grey text on a dark grey background.
@thepinkestpigglet7529
3 ай бұрын
Someone's colors aren't right why is your text gray it's supposed to be white
@wearwolf2500
3 ай бұрын
@@thepinkestpigglet7529 would be nice
@reverse_engineered
3 ай бұрын
@@thepinkestpigglet7529 Many color schemes designed to be easier on the eyes intentionally use dark gray and an off-white rather than pure black and pure white. This is because excessive contrast causes eye strain. Look around your room. Which objects are as dark as night? Which objects are so white that they light up things next to them? Pure blacks and whites don't exist in nature. Most of the things around us have a relatively narrow range of contrast. Instead, it's the overall lighting that varies considerably - from mid day sun to a candle lit room, we can see well in a surprisingly wide spectrum of illumination. Our eyes are really good at adjusting to the ambient light level. But that adjustment is a global adjustment. Wide ranges in contrast within a single view result in things so dark that we struggle to make them out and so bright that they physically hurt and wash out things beside them. Color schemes for ebook readers will often have a charcoal gray on a sepia background, which spans a much narrower range than the pure black and white that most screens are capable of. This range is much more like reading printed words on a paper page of a book. This reduced contrast doesn't "pop" as much - it's less attention grabbing - but it's much easier for our eyes to deal with.
@kepstin
2 ай бұрын
@@thepinkestpigglet7529 most "dark mode" stuff does use light grey text, since the extreme contrast of full bright white on black can be hard to read for some people (even the classic VGA text on a CRT was light grey rather than white). If you have your display brightness set properly for light mode (in a well-lit room, where the "white" background is just somewhat brighter than a sheet of paper), then text in many dark mode apps will look quite dim. Note that similarly, many light mode apps actually use dark grey text on a white background.
@sanjeethmahendrakar
3 ай бұрын
I have a weird middle ground in this debate because all my apps are in dark mode, or if the option is available, "gray mode" which is not as black but still dark. Pure dark mode is kinda uncomfortable sometimes. In sharp contrast my home and lock screen is like a kaleidoscope of a bunch of bright colors.
@LyraelRayne
Ай бұрын
“Easier to read” doesn’t necessarily mean more legible. I would expect most people use comfort to determine what’s “easier” to read, all other things being equal (or close enough)
@avi12
3 ай бұрын
0:39 I agree with Taha, so much so that my Windows computer is switched daily to dark mode with a third-party app Auto Dark Mode
@Tcw7468
3 ай бұрын
yay another one of us
@PizzaBagels589
2 ай бұрын
I unironically like how you weaved the sponsor into explaining your process rather than shoehorning it in. It works really well with the flow of the video.
@ibrahimsoukak437
25 күн бұрын
True
@oscarfriberg7661
3 ай бұрын
I’m not sure about the battery claims. It might be true for OLED, but far from all screens are OLED. With light mode I can in most cases bring down the brightness low, which dramatically increases the battery life. Dark mode is mostly only usable on the brightest settings, which drains the battery way faster.
@mikukumiku
18 күн бұрын
As a graphics designer, I’ve always just been used to dark mode. As you mentioned, it allows us to focus on the workpiece and is also critical for me when comparing tonal values or works that require color accuracy. As for apple’s decision in iOS 18, I think this is more a reactionary move since competitors are offering customizability which goes against the hard-coded stylization of Apple GUIs in general. So in a way, it’s Apple buckling to pressure because the public perception is that their GUIs are outdated. Don’t know is if this was the best answer to that though.
@antonysamuelsam
2 ай бұрын
is it possible to access the data from the research that was conducted for this video? if so where can i find it?
@SamAronow
3 ай бұрын
I just want it on the record that I, a dark mode user, did slightly (but not meaningfully) better in the dark mode part of the test.
@EcceJack
3 ай бұрын
I'm glad for you; meanwhile I - also a dark mode user - was somewhat unhappy to find myself doing slightly *worse* in the dark mode part of the test 😅
@viliml2763
3 ай бұрын
I bet you threw the light mode part of the test on purpose to make it look worse
@SamAronow
3 ай бұрын
@@viliml2763 If I'd done that, it wouldn't have been "slightly."
@moranjackson7662
2 ай бұрын
I've read a paper that stated that light mode is better for reading, because of contrast. But that's probably what you said about the brightness of the screen making our pupils close up and us getting a shaper image.
@gautambidari
2 ай бұрын
One of the best ad integrations I've seen. First time I've watched the entire ad plug because it was just so interesting!
@CaTastrophy427
2 ай бұрын
There's one exception: when you're dealing with color-grapheme or color-word synesthesia, certain letters or words can be nearly invisible on light mode, but it's a lot less common, at least in my experience and from what I've heard from the admittedly small sample (3) of others with one of those two forms of synesthesia, for text to be nearly invisible on dark mode. In my case, synesthesia only changes the color of words when I'm reading really dark (black or near-black) text on a rather light (pale yellow or whiter) background. (This is not the case for others, I'm not sure why it is for me, but...) I've had words be as light as the aforementioned pale yellow (invisible on a pale yellow background, and might as well be invisible on a white or off-white background), or as dark as... royal blue. Which is still pretty easy to distinguish from a black background. In others' cases, from what I've heard, the range of colors is a bit more narrow, owing to the fact that they have a mere 26 or 52 graphemes to ascribe a color to, vs thousands of words. The range for them seems to be more like light pink to forest green, still nothing particularly dark, and still some rather light characters, but nothing too invisible on either background. One person did say that lowercase a and o are nearly the same shade of light-ish yellow for them, so with some fonts (the ones that use the italic/script a [ɑ] instead of the roman a [a], such as Trebuchet MS, Georgia Italic, Comic Sans, which are quite common to see but not well known by name) to distinguish between words such as "battle" and "bottle", it's better to be in dark mode where there's high contrast and it's easier to see if the round shape has a tail or not. Edit: also, I like being able to custom tint my dark mode icons. Perhaps because of my synesthesia, but I do have strong and rather interesting preferences for colors. I like putting together light blues (almost electric blue) and dark purples (such as royal purple). Grey just doesn't look good to me, like ever, unless it has a tint of some other color (blue-grey is good, regular grey is not).
@Amejonah
2 ай бұрын
4:11 >wordpress >top notch security ah yes, but no.
@GavHern
3 ай бұрын
2:38 thanks for making me self conscious about my blinking lmao
@EricaGamet
3 ай бұрын
I'm a designer and about 20 years ago my eye doctor asked if I was a designer. I said yeah how did you know? He said because you people never blink... are you afraid you'll blink and your design will be gone? I didn't want to tell him yeah, kinda. Haha! But for 20 years now I am very aware when I'm staring and not blinking while working!
@bluecollarden
Ай бұрын
My husband is dyslexic and he finds he has an easier time reading in dark mode, so in his case, dark mode does benefit him. But until my husband and I started living together, I used light mode until he convinced me to use dark mode and other than the time of day, it's made no difference to me. I also began ten years ago to always have a lamp on when I'm using my phone before bed so I don't strain my eyes.
@NiklasForsman1
3 ай бұрын
Amazing. One of, if not the, best incorporation of an ad-read into a video I've ever seen.
@imamwahyudi4259
25 күн бұрын
Oh my gosh, you are so smart, the video and delivery are amazing, even the ads part is great. I wonder why my profile haven't subscribed to this channel yet, even though I watch videos from this channel often.
@TallinuTV
Ай бұрын
The biggest reason I've been using dark mode on my _phone_ is battery life. OLED screens, like you briefly mention, draw power that scales with brightness. More bright pixels = more power used, white draws more than grey or primary colors, etc. So a bright white background is one of the worst possible things for battery life, leaving aside other sources of power consumption like the processor -- playing games, HD video decoding, etc. If you're plugged in it's not particularly relevant, but on the go, dark mode saves a noticeable amount of power in phones with this kind of screen technology. That said, *_bright_* white text on a black background is definitely hard on my eyes, resulting in intense afterimages of squiggly text-like shapes that linger as I look at other things for a minute or more, and when I was younger and used old BBSes (yeah they were a thing when I was growing up) my eyes would get somewhat sore after spending too long staring at the screen. On desktop, I tend to find black text on a light grey background to be the most comfortable. Not blindingly bright, but bright enough to make the text more legible and prevent those ridiculously persistent afterimages!
@DoveJS
Ай бұрын
This is an excellent video, I didn't even think about how dark mode came first and I was there in the 90's lol, but I don't think the reinvention of dark mode necessarily paved the way for the potentially sloppy look of this "make your own adjustments" UI. When a corporation cuts corners it's about short term profits and I guess UI design doesn't boost them by very much... They wanted it to be functional but they wanted it fast and cheap for planned obsolescence. That's why AI everything is being pushed right now. Edit: Sorry I wrote this having come back to the video the next day. I forgot you did touch on this at the very end so let me explain that I don't think it looking bad was from offloading it onto us as much as it was getting a freelancer to spend less time on coding it. If there were more options for subtly adjusting everything and attention paid to the details... yanno IDK I might be dumb and saying nothing different here lol. TBH it's very hard to have pleasing visuals at every color frequency and since they can't control every icon individually when they're from different apps I guess that's the true wildcard.
@Plexxl
3 ай бұрын
The bit with Apple announcing dark tinted mode app icons was to integrate a trend where people would use shortcuts with a custom app icon to show off their apps, making a lot of people use minimalist app icons to show off their “aesthetic.”
@ReddStrider
3 ай бұрын
so they basically just copied android.
@surgio98
2 ай бұрын
I have used dark mode for about 35 years, to one extent or another. Your video just helped me relize something. I love dark mode because: 1. It doesn't feel like a flashlight is being shined in my eyes. 2. It improved battery life. What I don't like about dark mode is working on an email or document because those thing are essentially paper. When we visit a website we don't change it's color unless the website itself offers the mode. Think about all the apps that have to get on the dark mode bandwagon because not all interfaces work on dark mode. When I am creating a document or email it is with the intention of sharing. That part i just broken. Companies will often embed a black logo with a clear background at the base of the email. It looks great, unless you are using dark mode. I really think we need to have the option to turn off dark mode on the content itself on the same screen we are looking at it, without having to go into settings. Better yet give us a third option. Dark mode with light mode content (or something that reads better)
@DrakiniteOfficial
18 күн бұрын
Wow, never heard of this channel before, I love your presentation style!
@ryanizanami4866
2 ай бұрын
It helps me focus on Colors and immerse myself into it.
@MachineCode0
11 күн бұрын
I have bilateral keratoconus, this increases my sensitivity to light, causes poor vision and halos around lights and other visual artifacts around the border of light and dark objects. I basically have to use dark mode, everywhere. Lots of things are too uncomfortable or difficult to look at otherwise. With my condition, light 'bleeds' into dark. So light text on a dark background may be a little blurry, but it's a blurred shape of the words/letters etc, where as with an entire page of bright background with dark text the text gets lost much more easily and with the increased volume of light it's much harder to see and more uncomfortable to look at.
@Limit19970
2 ай бұрын
Ive always maintained the opinion, when my friends complain about me using lightmode, that if light mode hurts your eyes, that you either need to *TURN YOUR SCREEN BRIGHTNESS DOWN*, *OPEN YOUR CURTAINS, OR TURN YOUR LIGHT ON*, or *GO SEE A DOCTOR*.
@thefareplayer2254
3 ай бұрын
1:18 Well that’s relatable
@crazyrocket2900
15 күн бұрын
I feel like what you mentioned about companies not caring about how we're going to use things is especially prevalent in AI design. I find the question being asked for each new AI thing is "Who asked for this?" Using a generative ai to produce summaries that could easily lie (because it's generative ai and that's not the type of ai we should use for that). Or meta using ai in their search bar? For what? something, I have no clue. Part of this could be testing the waters for what works but it just feels like they aren't putting any effort into thinking about how someone might actually want to use ai (or the fact that some of us may not want to use ai for literally everything you could think to apply ai to).
@thatww2nerd81
Ай бұрын
Two things: 1: I will now be blinking manually for the rest of the day looking at screens 2: I guess I'm moving back to light mode
@blinded6502
Ай бұрын
Recently I got employed into a job, where I have to sit against a bright window, and hence use light theme, so my eyes don't feel TOO much in agony. After 3 weeks I got used to it. I can't look at dark mode the same way I did before, it literally feels like y'all some cave dwellers trying to see patterns in the shadow, while I can smile at the radioactive flames of the Sun god.
@jayveerisdabest7500
3 ай бұрын
3:34 canadian spotted lmao
@drax-thedarklord7605
2 ай бұрын
That makes quite a lot of sense. I think a lot of companies also just give us dark mode instead of making their site look good. Like using a mix of warm and cold colors that are not as bright as a blank white page with text. For now dark mode just looks better than plain white.
@cuerdencats4151
18 күн бұрын
Readability in light or dark mode depends more on what your brain is experienced reading, and actually contrast typically plays a bigger role. Which is good news for OLED dark mode users, since only pure black turns the pixels off, which is where the energy savings comes from!
@PaddeeBA
2 ай бұрын
I do think giving the user the option to easily personalize their apps is a good thing tbh. Like, I myself prefer the standard designs and they should definitely keep making those lol, but Imo it is always better to improve the possible individualization of our personal belongings
@PiousSlayer
Ай бұрын
I'd like Dark Mode with different font colors instead of just white. Sometimes, it's way easier to read a green ('programmer green') or shades of blue text with a black background is much easier to read.
@wge621
2 ай бұрын
I'm a UX designer and I've been in this position so many times! So hard to find definitive research on this
@west_0129
2 ай бұрын
Its just way easier for me to read white text because the light is projecting to my eyes instead of my eyes reading the empty space (or black worlds) I change every Online text to have Black background and white text and it honestly helps
@brockmckelvey7327
3 ай бұрын
"So I looked into some academic research on those claims. Pretty easy; there aren't that many!" Oh no, things aren't looking too good for Dark Mode users and we're barely 2 minutes in to the video!
@SotonyaAcckaya
2 ай бұрын
As someone who recently hit my 40s ans my eyesight started to shift towards farsightedness, i must notice that eye accomodation is a thing and it indeed easier to read in well lit room with high brightness screen. I used to mock my parents for using 100% screen brightness, like do they need flashlight? Now i'm started to see why...
@lukew6725
2 ай бұрын
"Light mode is better for your eyes because it will force you to look away from your screen more often" This is a troll video, right?
@saisharathjammu2681
2 ай бұрын
The way she included promotion with problem. That was first for me
@jgsung
3 ай бұрын
Dark mode, light mode, I stopped caring when I saw that Taha is still going strong with the blue skid mark on his wall 😂
@VynalDerp
2 ай бұрын
I feel terribly called out. I have awful vision and my answer felt pretty obvious, "All that really matters is the amount of contrast, light mode or dark." I tend to use whatever mode has... better contrast. I've used light mode almost exclusively on KZitem whether I'm on PC midday or on my phone in bed at night, because it's easy to read. No need to fix what's broken. I also used to use light mode on discord before they changed it years ago - it used to be full white but they changed the side bar to be a medium grey and I started having difficulty reading channel names and my eyes struggled to adjust from reading on grey to reading on white. I switched to dark mode purely because the background was more uniform across the entire window, with better and more consistent contrast.
@yaboyzelly03
9 күн бұрын
I just switched youtube to lightmode after using darkmode for years just to see the difference. It literally looks like an entirely new website. I switched back with the speed of a toddler at bedtime.
@egosumfedchenko
Ай бұрын
I use dark mode only for video/movie apps, when it's one window that you should concentrate on. Messengers, social medias and books are light
@helloaftergoodbye3922
2 ай бұрын
I never thought of the new iOS tinted home screen feature as part of the existing dark mode. (I am on public beta). It only tints and darkens the home-screen, the system wide dark mode that we are used to, is its own toggle. I believe the tinted function is purely for aesthetic. Like matching your icon colours with your home screen background.
@lawra89
2 ай бұрын
I do think that it can definitely make good design look bad. I usually use dark mode if it's a choice mainly because I have a light sensitivity that I sneeze if I go from being in a darker place then seeing a light. Example: I sneeze when I turn lights on at night, I sneeze if a bright light comes on a screen, if I look at headlights at night, etc.
@Rayos_Catodicos
Ай бұрын
7:31 I love how she had to mention that Apple introduced Dark mode in 2018 like it was a brand new thing, except that Windows had it 2 years before.
@Motoko_Urashima
Ай бұрын
I use dark mode all the time, except when I'm trying to read text in sunlight, then it's far easier to make out text in light mode, even if the brightness is turned way down. Also, there are multiple options for dark that are fine, navy blue, dark purple, dark green.... they're all fine. My irc window is 14 point green serif text on dark grey, I like that. not everything has to be white text on black.
@DrakiniteOfficial
18 күн бұрын
Hot take: Apple giving you the choice to make a bad decision with your own phone (tinting all your icons the same color) is a good thing. As long as the option doesn't make the experience worse for everyone else, giving someone the freedom to make their phone less functional and more aesthetic is totally fine. Now, on the other hand, Google changing their icons a couple years ago, to make them all look exactly the same with the same 4 colors? Absolutely terrible for accessibility, because it affected everyone. Btw, I'm normally an Apple hater. But I'm a hater because normally they restrict user choice to a stupid degree. So I appreciate when they actually do give folks more freedom.
@danteregianifreitas6461
2 ай бұрын
I think what kills dark mode is when it's high contrast. If you have the text way too bright I feel it gets harder to read. Also those new iOS icons go on a similar way, they are too bright/too saturated
@l3xforever
2 ай бұрын
You use light mode in light conditions (especially on mobile devices, where you’re often in less than ideal condition such as direct sunlight), where you need as much contrast as you can get. You use dark mode in darker conditions, where darker modes usually offer lower contrast. Both will better match the contrast of device screen with your surroundings, which makes your eyes adaptation strain less when your gaze wander around.
@xiola
25 күн бұрын
I'm so glad Taha said it within the first minute of the video... >_> (I do use it most of the time but it's mostly because I prefer to keep my phone on battery-saver mode so I'm just used to it. I also do prefer using warm light at night, Also on my computer and phone I try to match the screen to the temperature of light in the room because to me it's the contrast between the screen and the ambient light that causes my eye strain)
@gold22silver
2 ай бұрын
You really hit us with the "maybe the real dark mode was the friends we made along the way" lol
@JonathanMoran-ut7eu
23 күн бұрын
Ive been a discord light mode user since light mode has existed, ive always found dark mode more depressing but i can definitely understand the benefit of less eye strain.
@ceonationz
2 ай бұрын
Thumbs up to the concept and editing of the video
@apteropith
2 ай бұрын
black text on a bright screen is certainly easier to read, but it sure does hurt my eyes if i switch to it from something darker (most other things!)
@teresae9249
Ай бұрын
My issue with dark mode is that while this shows white on black, most apps I've tried use gray on black as dark mode which makes legibility worse
@mksundstrom
2 ай бұрын
If I've read white text on a black background for just a few minutes, and I look away, It's like I have Parisian Blinds over my eyes. The world looks interlaced. It's very much a question of contrast.
@macronencer
Ай бұрын
As with all accessibility topics, this really has a simple answer: allow as many options as possible. I'm 59 and have cataracts (awaiting surgery in a month or two) - for me light mode is almost illegible, especially with grey fonts. Can anyone tell me why they use grey and not black? I have a vague feeling it's to help people with dyslexia, but I can't quite remember. But if that's the case, again, I'd prefer an option. If I must have a white background, black text would at least give me some small chance of being able to read it. By the way, although I don't particularly miss skeuomorphism, I've never quite forgiven Apple for the changes they made regarding colour. Finder used to have colours for key locations (e.g. purple for the Desktop folder), which helped me find them quickly. Why did they suddenly decide they should all be grey? I mean, WHY? It was a useful productivity aid, and they just removed it for no better reason that some stupid design maxim that "colours are bad" (or "colors" in this case, I suppose... haha!)
@ilo3456
Ай бұрын
My eyes are very photosensitive to the point it physically hurts if things are too bright, so I generally prefer dark mode because it just is easier on my eyes all the time and specially when I wake up and have to check what time it is, opening a curtain is like when a vampire gets exposed to sunlight, it hurts my eyes enough that I end up wincing in pain. For me it is less of a particular preference and more of a requirement for my eyes specifically, I do have amazing night vision though, while I can't tell detail because it is dark, I can still perceive depth to a functional degree and see outlines of objects even in near complete darkness to a point that I can navigate the environment, I dread going out at noon because of this reason, before I got photosensitive lenses on my glasses I had to squint anytime I went out during the day because my eyes hurt that much.
@woodreauxwoodreaux6298
2 ай бұрын
I can't speak for every person, but for me: my eyes have an easier time gravitating towards and resolving bright points and lines on a darker background than vice-versa. Paper being pale and ink being dark is not ideal, but it's okay and compromise when resources and technology are limited. But if you're reading content on from pixels, it is practical to use whichever chromatic theme you want. A good UI design to be dynamic and support dark mode, light mode and other color-themes according to the readers preference.
@JoshuaMola-rw4fq
15 күн бұрын
Ok but you gotta admit, dark gray and gold app icons is sick
@sycamoregrad901
Ай бұрын
“Accidentally spent weeks.” Iykyk 😂
@henningerhenningstone691
2 ай бұрын
I only ever preferred dark mode because it makes me feel more relaxed, potentially because I find it more aesthetically pleasing. Both are entirely subjective reasons that no one can prove or argue against. I always found the claims about health and eyestrain kinda ridiculous.
@Profile-pictureX
2 ай бұрын
2:17 the video in this exact moment is called Discord light theme
@chenoaholdstock3507
2 ай бұрын
5:50 NO, NO, ITS NOT BORING! GIVE ME MY STATISTICS. I WANT MY STATISTICS.
@ariamelody5560
Ай бұрын
EXACTLY
@mehmeh_
Ай бұрын
That's what Im saying as well
@kimberlykinsinger2612
29 күн бұрын
Samsies!
@entidy
23 күн бұрын
YEAH GIVE US THE NERD FUEL
@kitsune_gt
17 күн бұрын
People always skip over explanations and stuff like this... WHY
@chronicallyheadachedfox8023
3 ай бұрын
darkmode and lightmode being both available are important for accessibility reasons. being extremely sensitive to light myself, i cannot read sites that don't have it well often. my mom on the other hand cannot read darkmode as easily, and always uses lightmode when possible
@MoonieLovegood
2 ай бұрын
Ye i’m dayblind. The amount of squinting dark mode has saved me (and thus exhaustion, and wrinkles)…. Is insane.
@flashgnash
2 ай бұрын
Dark reader extension is fantastic, you rarely get a site that doesn't work with it
@Liggliluff
26 күн бұрын
Having a global switch that's respected across all software and websites is so important, but so often overlooked.
@ajaxbuchann5243
19 күн бұрын
Yea as someone who has palinopsia, I physically can’t read white text on dark background.
@lighinz137
2 күн бұрын
@@ajaxbuchann5243 Meanwhile, for me, dark mode is much harder to read because I have astigmatism! It really is important to have both
@Over.thewillow
3 ай бұрын
Bro got me thinking about my blinking for the rest of the video
@lonestarr1490
3 ай бұрын
Not me observing people on their phone and shouting at them, "blink, you fool!" in my best Gandalf voice.
@mertensiam3384
3 ай бұрын
ME
@Nick12_45
3 ай бұрын
@@lonestarr1490 lol thats actually funny
@sneeze9999
3 ай бұрын
I started blinking until my eyes teared up
@Imsoobroke
3 ай бұрын
you just made me realize I havent blinked since she said that
@WillFuI
3 ай бұрын
The reason the book analogy is bad is because the book doesn’t emit light so it scales linearly with the light around u.
@helpme5785
2 ай бұрын
This is a very good point
@minutenreis
2 ай бұрын
also the reason why I prefer dark mode on emitting devices (smartphone, laptop, desktop) but prefer lightmode on non-emitting ones (electronic paper like amazon kindle)
@bleack8701
2 ай бұрын
auto brightness on the phone....
@shrimpshufflr7745
2 ай бұрын
@@bleack8701 still emits light tho, and not everyone has that one. It also doesn't really try to stay the same brightness as your surroundings.
@woedendstewadpier4922
2 ай бұрын
White paper is meant to be highly reflective. How is reflected light different than emitted light in your opinion? It can be both be to bright or to dark. White printer paper can just be too bright in direct sunlight (I guess that is why lots of books do not have completely white paper). Light is light in the end of the day.
@robspiess
3 ай бұрын
There's a hidden unsupported feature in Wikipedia to enable Dark Mode, but it mostly just inverts the colors of everything on the page and attempts to invert-invert any images that were messed up. I use it all the time and love it!
@jakkaljakobie8774
3 ай бұрын
Ohh, please share your secrets! How do you access that?
@spelcheak
3 ай бұрын
There’s also wikiwand
@Arcanist_Gaming
3 ай бұрын
Yeah, I _definitely_ need that. I go down way too many rabbit-holes on there an end up with text-block shaped sunspots every time.
@flubnub266
3 ай бұрын
Vivaldi browser has a "filter invert" tickbox at the bottom that does that to any page you want.
@ashton7981
3 ай бұрын
@@spelcheak the company that takes the free labour of wikipedia editors and uses it to make money by showing ads and selling user data?
@Peroroncīno-san
2 ай бұрын
the reason i use dark mode is because bright lights or the colour white just hurts my eyes, like actual pain.
@killerkonnat
Ай бұрын
Your screen brightness and contrast settings are wrong. Unless you have a genetic defect which is possible.
@Peroroncīno-san
Ай бұрын
@@killerkonnat well probably a genetic defect, since its not only just a screen that hurts my eyes when its bright. its also when its bright outside or just anything bright.
@Sirevanacc
26 күн бұрын
@@killerkonnat thing is that that simply doesn't happen if you have dark mode. There are no "wrong settings" AFAIK.
@AliceErishech
25 күн бұрын
You should try something like f.lux. (Or whatever the phone equivalent would be if you primarily use a smartphone.) It sets a warmer color profile on your screen which avoids a lot of eye strain. Between that and brightness settings that aren't significantly brighter than your environment, you can lessen eye strain by a ton. I have really sensitive eyes to the point that I often have to squint outside even on overcast days but not only do light themes not hurt my eyes when sitting at my computer but dark themes actually result in issues because they're so much darker then my environment so looking away from my screen on sites with dark themes actually hurts my eyes now.
@ajaxbuchann5243
19 күн бұрын
@@Sirevanaccactually it happens with me. I physically can’t read white text on black background. It all just blurs into lines of white and I get a headache.
@VexVerity
3 ай бұрын
If there’s one thing I wish people understood about accessibility and usability in general, it’s that there is no one best design.
@taradid409
3 ай бұрын
I feel like all the accessibility designs sucks. I would like to be able to control my background color my font color and my font style inline size. I guess that's too much to ask for as there is only dark mode or bright mode with crappy font options and no color options.
@RandomKSandom
3 ай бұрын
If I could give you multiple thumbs up, I would. I was involved in an accessibility working group a while back and got to meet lots of people with very contrasting needs. I knew they varied; I didn't realise they varied _that_ much.
@VexVerity
3 ай бұрын
@@taradid409 There should be more options, and they should never be behind a paywall, because that amounts to a disability tax.
@ralphfi9591
3 ай бұрын
I'm cool with having more font options and color options. But do we really need more background color options? Bright and dark mode pretty much fits all sorts of situations. If there are more background options, I feel like it would be popular for 2 or 3 weeks, then people would go back to bright or dark mode again.
@RandomKSandom
3 ай бұрын
@@ralphfi9591 We definitely do. For example: Some people (particularly those with astigmatism) benefit from a grey background to reduce the effects of halation or bloom. Meanwhile people who have to read using their perifferal vision (eg stargardt disease) need as much contrast as possible (ie white text on a pure black background). There are many other use-cases that can, and should, be addressed by simply having the options available.
@KingJellyfishII
3 ай бұрын
I'm firmly in the "all personalisation is a good thing" camp on this one. I use dark mode because I think it looks prettier (mostly)
@AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable
2 ай бұрын
I think usually dark mode looks horrible, in particular on youtube, but that's not really the point, the point is whether the text has enough contrast and is easily readable in size and type. I like the flow better in light mode, I don't think most companies care at all about dark mode all they do is they invert the colors which looks terrible, and so I agree with the host here, dark mode is about horrible design and then selling it as revolutionary and good for health and battery life.
@KingJellyfishII
2 ай бұрын
@@AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable yeah fair enough, i agree that it's entirely aesthetic, the supposed benefits are basically nonexistent. some websites have terrible dark mode, i agree, but some are nice imo. especially code editors, people have made actually nice dark themes for them.
@AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable
2 ай бұрын
@@KingJellyfishII Design is like food. Some like spicy food, some do not. And some like light light mode, some like dark. I am not against dark mode, but to sell what is a theme as something sent from God, I mean... Let people have the choice that is good, everyone is happy to have their own choice, and built it into the OS itself too I am very fine with that too, I am all for choice. But it's the over selling I do not like. Actual good design is to me, to not over do things. Don't use very bright white, don't use completely black black. Use good contract on text and a good readable font. And make the design follow the four design principles too, such that it is in sync, no matter if it's darker or lighter. And then do accessability testing.
@KingJellyfishII
2 ай бұрын
@@AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable I 100% agree
@AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable
2 ай бұрын
@@KingJellyfishII My code editor actually has a theme which is neither light nor dark, but in the middle :) It's a tidbit pastel red and very friendly to look at - for me :) But I did spend an awful lot of time to find the right font, to find the right syntax highlighting colors which have the best contrast and are still nice to look at. My eye sight is not the best, contrast is what is most important for me. But I agree with you, very light white is not good to look at.
@emmaevans888
3 ай бұрын
As an architect, I’ve noticed that a white or black background hurts my eyes more and instead our default background is actually dark blue, like CAD, which is much easier to look at all day
@TheTapeandscissors
2 ай бұрын
I'm going to try that
@AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable
2 ай бұрын
Exactly. Like if this is actually a war between sun brigt eye burning light white and death dark black. No it is not. It is a matter of not over doing things. Just do not use pure white and do not use pure dark. Use a good contrast on text. Make the text readable in size and type. It _is_ allowed to use actual colors on a color screen too.
@emmaevans888
2 ай бұрын
@@AntiAtheismIsUnstoppable yes exactly, the in between dark blue or gray is super helpful for eye strain instead of pure black with white text
@snowball_from_earth
2 ай бұрын
I love a good grey theme, that's not all black. Like blender or that discord one.
@Nippontradamus
2 ай бұрын
I grew to love Dracula themes, which is a dark purple with green and orange highlights. It is a site dedicated to creating the same consistent easy to look at theme for every application under the silicon
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