Google reveals vibrant Material 3 Expressive, coming soon to a Pixel near you
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The bells and whistles have taken over! There was a time when people knew what mattered, or at least knew that they should know. Now it's nonsense all the way down.
Nobody seems to remember that most animations and so on are just distractions that undermine our focus.
Also, if the pictures in the article are any guide, everything will now look like a Grateful Dead poster ca. 1968.
Hurray??
Nobody seems to remember that most animations and so on are just distractions that undermine our focus.
Also, if the pictures in the article are any guide, everything will now look like a Grateful Dead poster ca. 1968.
Hurray??
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Blegh! It's impressive that they managed to turn that awful corporate memphis art style into a UX design language and it's even more impressive just how awful, cluttered, noisy, and inscrutable it looks!
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The original material design is a fluke anomaly in a history of bad design (all thanks to hiring Duarte after Palm failed) from a company that never understood UI design and still doesn't. The only other thing they ever had was the "clean" simple google search home page and they've ruined that too. Google has always sucked so much at user interfaces it's kind of astounding that they're still finding new lows to sink to
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Nah it's garish but in a bougie kind of way rather than a more pedestrian way like supermarket consumer branding
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Duarte still seems to be VP of Design at Google, so I wouldn't let him off the hook for MD2 and 3, unfortunately.
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^Where's the double upvote button.
If your theory is correct it certainly explains the still total garbage usability of phones today. Like the biggest example: why can't you do whatever you choose from the lock screen? Anything you want in fact - should be able to assign any function or any setting from any app to a lock screen button or control you can customize - same with home screen of course. They're not actually interested in usability, or are just really stupid and know nothing about human interaction (so need an 18,000 person focus group to try to learn); but almost certainly both.
(Btw there's an app called Tasker I think that can do some of this but I've never used it, you have to buy it, it certainly can't execute any internal app action (without a macro, which I think it has but which is also ridiculous) and you shouldn't need a separate app for the most basic functionality that should've been on the very first smartphone. And in Windows.)
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These Play-, Forward-/Backward-Buttons look indeed kind of weirdly large. Maybe there are 1% easier/faster to click but that shouldn’t mean all interfaces have to be ugly.
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The problem is that unless you buy a Pixel, by the time it trickles down through the company that maintains your device a true abomination will be born.
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I know you can probably change the color palette but why wouldn’t they use THAT one in their promotional screeen shot.
Maybe it’s just me but I’m not interested in the “pepto bismal” theme
Maybe it’s just me but I’m not interested in the “pepto bismal” theme
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This reminds me of 90s web design, with different fonts, weird shapes and being colorful - interestingly I just realized a few weeks before that somehow liked that design and wanted it back in some areas.
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This. O. M. G.
The first thing I did on any Win 10 installation was to nuke the Live Tiles. All of the people I message with know not to send me anything containing an animated GIF, because it means they'll get back an anguished AAAAAAAGH! and then several lines of
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just to make the bloody thing scroll off the message window.
Okay, I have a friend or two who will deliberately send me one on occasion just to get that reaction. But the point holds: I understand the point of having animation in an advertisement, where being annoying and intrusive is just table stakes, but in the OS? Fuck that.
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What is with the obsession Goog seems to have without pastel colors?
FFS just let me pick a color, not some muted shade of the color I want.
FFS just let me pick a color, not some muted shade of the color I want.
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what can you possibly do in UI design at this point? I remember how exciting it was in early 2000's, but cmon its all just reshuffling of past reshuffles now, establish some functionality guidelines and a market so the userbase builds and picks whatever fits them
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May be futile to hope for, but I hope this includes more display settings in the way of 'Color Correction' or 'Night Light' options. While I appreciate combining the 'Grayscale' color correction with 'Night Light' for nighttime use, I'd enjoy a red monochrome setting even more. Candy Crush color schemes are inherently designed to keep you stimulated and glued to the screen.
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Sure that can help, but it isn't complete - doesnt change the settings or notification bar for example.
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There's a lot of wiggle room to argue the particulars, but I think it's self-evident that if you could do literally anything on the lock screen, it would defeat the point of it being a lock screen.
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Never. They'll be long cancelled before there's a chance to update them.
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Ya, I wasn't too clear; I meant configure it in any way you want, so any shortcuts, a menu, add a slider that controls a single notification volume, etc...anything. Most people would have whichever things they use constantly during the day. It makes 0 sense that it's not already like this esp. now with all the smart home devices etc. Even if some of those apps use lock screen notifications properly, not all do and none of the ones I've seen are done properly. Also as I say, you need the same simple functionality on the home screen. You can have one page for example be your custom control panel you can build however you want.
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I think he wants it painted black. No colours anymore, he wants them to turn black, black as night, back as coal, like the black heart inside of him.
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I remember disliking Material at the time for wasting so much space on then-small screens, making everything flat (losing distinctions between content and interactive elements), as well as their pretentious "design guide" (these are paper shapes hovering above a surface)
This new design looks like it uses the same approach. More "look what I can do" than anything pragmatic.
This new design looks like it uses the same approach. More "look what I can do" than anything pragmatic.
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The paper-sheet concept actively encouraged subtle drop shadows and square corners. Those are gone, gone, gone, and MD is worse off for it.
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That explains why, when I looked at that graph, I got the impression the data shouldn't be taken too seriously...
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