Why is Dark Mode So Popular?

Dark Mode, a extremely popular ux/ui design framework, is wildly popular. Why? What's the design psychology behind this? How did we get here?

[redesignuxui]

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[ArtUniverse]

1. more elegant
2. more comfortable
3. uses less power

Saved you 10 minutes.

[Foxercide]

The quality of the video made me think this was mainstream.

[darkwoodmovies]

Dark mode is so funny to me. When it was only on Android, nobody cared, and even big app companies like Meta just deprioritized it. But then Apple got OLED screens and added dark mode, and within a matter of months, almost every app and many websites suddenly had a dark mode option.

[Marek]

Phone: Sunrise -> light, Sunset -> Dark
Computer: Dark all the time

[gregtasi]

Just got this in my recommended.This will (and should) blow up!

[SuperOriginal]

Those reasons are cool and all but I use dark mode only to not get flashbanged when I binge youtube at 2 am

[fabio.antunes]

Awesome. Hard to find such a well scripted and designed video backed by good investigation these days.👏 I hope this channel popularly blows up.

[ArthurKhazbs]

As said in the video, even the first computer screens started with dark mode. As an Android enthusiast, I remember back in the days when Android still used Holo design (before Material Design) the system UI was always in "dark mode". I've always accepted dark mode as the default, to the point where I'm more likely to ask the question "Why light mode?"

[somewhereinthemiddle]

The infographics in this video should have all been done in dark mode. For you know... the eyes... :D

[weiSane]

Not using dark mode should be a crime. Dark mode everythingggg….

[AIGMateYT]

I Use Dark Modes Because Of

1. It Looks Beautiful
2. Reduce White Light for Eye

[RedsTom_]

VSCode IS NOT AN IDE!!!!
(nice video btw)

[Dakappon]

Great animations! what software do you use?

[exotic-gem]

This video has very weird issues. Points are repeated for no reason, themes and examples are scattered around and repeated too, and there is little through line.

I suggest you work on your scripts a little longer. You clearly have some skill at making videos, but they need to be way more focused and better organized if you want to reach a mainstream audience.

[craesh]

I'm using dark mode sind the late 90ies. Even Windows 95 had a kind of dark mode, a dark color scheme. It was removed in XP, though. But only a few applications had a dark color scheme until recently. Linux desktops and applications were way ahead of time in the 2000s and 2010s. IIRC MacOS introduced it in the early or mid 2010s.


The study about myopia is interesting. Maybe that's why my eyes stopped getting worse in the past 20 years or so 😅

[Scratch_Fakemon]

i hate when websites dont have a dark mode option because it burns my eyes

[eiedzyk]

I was a relatively early adopter of dark mode everything. Used to find way to force it via third party or on mobile, jail breaking. But in the last 5 years I use light mode for the clean aesthetic (unless late night in bed) Dark now feels cluttered and junky

[alexdefoc]

Subbed, but my main question is that your voice or AI voice?

[ameenie]

The quality is genuinely insane, cool subject and wonderful production quality, keep it going!