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AMA | the dark mode video (Patreon)

Published:
2024-07-02 13:37:42
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2026-06
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Do you have any questions about Sabrina's most controversial video yet? Leave a comment and we'll try to answer them in the aftershow podcast we are recording this Thursday.

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how dark mode killed good design

Get 10% off your next Hostinger website using code ANSWERINPROGRESS at https://hostinger.com/answerinprogress Is dark mode really better than light mode? In this video, Sabrina dives into the long-standing internet debate and explores the claims that dark mode is better for your eye strain, sleep health, battery life, and visual clarity. Along the way, she discovers why dark mode was really invented and how its evolution may be destroying good design. SUPPORT US ON PATREON https://patreon.com/answerinprogress SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER https://www.answerinprogress.com/newsletter SOCIAL MEDIA Sabrina Twitter: https://twitter.com/nerdyandquirky Instagram: http://instagram.com/nerdyandquirky Melissa Twitter: https://twitter.com/mehlizfern Instagram: http://instagram.com/mehlizfern Taha Twitter: https://twitter.com/khanstopme Instagram: http://instagram.com/khanstopme CREDITS Produced by Sabrina Cruz Video Editing by Joe Trickey Motion Design by Sabrina Cruz Sound Design by Joe Trickey Featuring Video Assets from Apple and @kazumanyaa MUSIC Epidemic Sound. Get started today using our affiliate link. http://share.epidemicsound.com/answerinprogress RECOMMENDED FOLLOW UPS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U9iC-c15AI TIMESTAMPS 00:00 if discord light mode has no haters, i am no longer of this Earth 00:30 sabrina discovers she is in an echo chamber 01:08 sabrina is determined to stay in her echo chamber 01:26 why people think dark mode is better than light mode 02:00 is dark mode better for your health? 02:50 is dark mode better for battery life? 03:03 is dark mode better for readability? 03:17 a long winded excuse to code the hardest game on Brain Age for the Nintendo DS 05:32 graphs! graphs! graphs! 06:15 how light mode helps you see more clearly 06:26 is dark mode actually better than light mode? 06:50 a nihilistic twist 08:37 why does dark mode exist? 09:10 the origins of the dark mode and light mode divide 10:10 dark mode and light mode lovers to enemies lore 11:10 the real dark mode was the friends we made along the way 11:26 SIKE! 11:33 old man yells at clouds 12:39 ngl the clouds kinda deserve it 13:06 woman afraid of having strong opinions on the internet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to the joke under the fold! Here's a classic dark mode joke: Why do developers like dark mode? Because light attracts bugs. Leave a comment with the word BUG to let me know you were here ;-)

Comments

Naomi

How long is the original footage from the middle bit (graphs! graphs! graphs!) before it was all sped up?

Abhi

I would love to use the light mode, but it is so unnecessarily bright on my phone. Most of the websites and apps I use (VS Code IDE, MobaXterm) have way better experience in dark mode than light mode, but maybe I am biased. My question to you is however, does the duration of you watching a screen matter, when you are choosing between light mode and dark mode? I am in software development, which means that I am staring at a screen for more than 7 hours a day. I use dark mode, since I feel it is easier on my eyes. Would there be any advantage in switching to light mode?

N30NPUM4

With this new knowledge of mode differences; would you change the main mode that you use? I know that I've sometimes had eye spots and strain in my daily use, I tried using light mode in a few more places (and quickly gave up because its so uncomfortable to me personally).

Alexanderhyperbeam

Is there such thing as like a "gray" mode that's like an in-between of the two and would there potentially be any benefit to that? Like a soft gray background with white/black text?

Kevin Pham

iPhones do have a grayscale mode that might be what you’re talking about

Jon Allanson

Did your research uncover anything about social pressure (or the reaction to it) influencing people's choice of using light or dark mode? I know that for me, way back when I was in school, so many of the dude-bros who wanted to exert their computer knowledge superiority over the rest of us extolled the virtue of dark mode, and so to react against that I decided to only use light mode. I've used light mode for so long now that it is what I prefer, even when being on the computer all day for work, and all evening for myself. Light mode, to me, just seems more natural and easy to read. Dark mode seems to me, since I use it so infrequently, to require so much more eye-effort to read.

Juan

Joe uses dark mode, therefore, dark mode wins. Also, when are we getting the Sabrina's cut with all the boring data in the middle, I need my spreadsheets and graphs bro

Lloyd

After doing all the research for this video, what is your phone set to right now?

Kim Ho

I don’t recall if it was mentioned so I might need to rewatch it: Does the brightness/contrast level of the screen (whether monitor or mobile) have any effect on the preference? I have known people who never change their setting and then complain about the screen being either too bright (when in light mode) or too dark (when in dark mode). Yes, it is an easy setting change - if you know it is there!

Igor Matkowski

what would clouds do to deserve being shouted at and what did you mean by clouds? (icons?)

Ella

In your research for this video, did you come across much on how effective blue light filters are? Obviously they're meant to help with eye strain but can they impact readability?

Hope

Did you find any research on people who wear glasses regularly versus those who don’t? My glasses apparently have a blue light filter built into them which the normal eye does not

maria cardoso

Just saying I want the release of Sabrina talking through the data