A designer friend convinced me to try dark mode on my portfolio and the bounce rate dropped 12% in a month

I was always team light mode. Felt cleaner, more professional. But my buddy who does UX stuff kept pushing me to flip it. I finally gave in last November. Just a simple switch on my portfolio site. Didn't change anything else. After 30 days the analytics showed people sticking around longer. Still not totally sold on it for every project but for my personal site it worked way better than I expected. Anyone else had a design hunch they fought against that ended up paying off?

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the_shane15d ago

Wait, you mean my "artist's touch" of having a bright white background with neon text wasn't helping? I tried dark mode on my band's website last year. Hated it for the first week, felt like I was designing a dungeon. But then I noticed people weren't clicking away after three seconds. My bounce rate dropped almost 10% too. Now I can't go back. It's like putting on sunglasses at a diner, makes you feel cooler than you actually are.

robert_bennett2915d ago

Yeah dark mode saved my eyes at 2am fixing crashed drives. Never going back.