The G looks like a power button. Quick, someone critique that.
Google’s look, evolved
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#12I love it. Quite often logo redesign processes gets completely out of hand, but this was a significant improvement over the older version: Cleaner, more modern and beautiful in all its simplicity. Bravo!
Yeah I think it's pretty nice too. Works really well with the material design elements for most their applications.
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#13This font fits in perfectly with the Alphabet theme. Straight out of a kids book.
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#14Many tech companies seem to be rolling out new designs at an increasing rate rate. A bit of a side note, but I've recently been pondering for how long material design will stay with us. I'd guess when the developer for that last Jelly Beanish app in my phone has finally made the switch, Google releases their new design guidelines and the process begins again...
Material Design is more of a living standard. It's constantly being updated, clarified and expanded. They even have changelogs. I'd guess that it's extremely likely to be replaced anytime soon, but will evolve over time.
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#16I'm going to miss Catull.
First I thought you meant Catmull, as in Catmull curves, then I've found out that there is a font called Catull :) Thank you!
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#17Wait, what. At roughly the 1:34 mark, the voice pulls up photos of her kid with a pumpkin. Do you have to tag your photos with "pumpkin" first or is the recent "Choose the picture of waffles" in Recaptcha fueling that?
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#182008 HN discussion from when the outgoing "little blue g" favicon was introduced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=211518 In it, Dustin Curtis criticizes Google (rather rightly, in my hindsight-enhanced opinion) for a Marissa-Mayeresque design process of "Make 300 logo variants with pseudorandom permutations, and then pick your favorite." Looking at those permutations now ( http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_7ZYqYi4xigk/S…
Interestingly, the blue g favicon is still there on the front page at https://www.google.com/favicon.ico (cache is off).
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#19Just when I thought we might be starting to pivot away from flat design - does anyone know of a different design paradigm that is being used by smaller/fringe designers who are tired of flat/minimal UX/UI?
Throwback 90's?
I'm so glad we're mostly rid of useless ornamentation: endless bevels, drop-shadows, gradients, and skeuomorphism...
There are many different takes on flat design, so it's not a design mono-culture. Google, Microsoft and Apple all have unique, flat, design languages.
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#20I'll be the first one to say it: I liked the older better. There was literally nothing wrong with it, it did not look dated at all.