It’s interesting Google is focusing so heavily on “color” as a primary design element (redesigned Mail, Drive, Docs, etc., unique individualized color palettes(? if I understand that correctly)) when one of the most common tests for UI designs is the grayscale test. I mostly try to avoid senseless “update hate,” but I have accidentally opened the wrong Google App multiple times after the redesign and am constantly grateful for Apple’s “reduced motion/transparency” settings when I have headaches.
Material You – The next stage for Material Design
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#12Anyone find the page doesn’t render right in mobile safari. Get a bunch of grey boxes.
Content except top navigation bar doesn't load at all on mobile Firefox. It's 2.5MB of JavaScript in the webpage so I guess it doesn't surprise me.
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#13I upvoted solely for the use of an en dash ( – ) in the title, instead of a hyphen ( - ). Probably comes down to personal aesthetics, but I find it looks so much nicer! For users on Windows, I recommend setting up an AutoHotKey script to convert the string "==-" to "–", and "===-" to "—". Easy to type, very intuitive (typing more characters gives a longer-width dash), and gives your carefully crafted email missives a…
Alternatively: -- and ---. Some operating system (like iOS) even automatically convert to – and — for you.
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#14I remember when material design first came out and I thought it was really intelligent, they had derived a way to design based on physical attributes of the real world; light, shadows, cards stacking like pieces of paper... I thought they were really onto something but every few years they now just seem to change it to fit with the fashion, maybe I was too naivete. I've started to wonder if it's even possible to deve…
Design is fashion
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#15I can’t help but feel Google’s only consistency is in their trying to be clean, cool, and innovative, but not actually getting the details right, and ending up looking juvenile and Fisher-Price-like. On mobile, the font is too big and too ragged. The colors and shapes look like a Kleenex box aesthetic. The spacing isn’t all that great.
I’m absolutely puzzled why a behemoth like Google can’t have exceptional, human design. Apple can do it, which leads me to believe the ability to pull it off is largely cultural. Something or someone in Apple demands design that is relatable, good-looking, and consistent, and Google simply doesn’t have the same driving force.
Google’s stuff isn’t bad, but it’s simply not exceptional.
(Edit: And to be clear, I mean Google’s design implementation in its entirety, especially beyond Android, including this very webpage which describes their new design.)
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#16I don't like the squiggly sliders.
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#17I love the concept.
Here's the problem: "We built upon this insight to generate unique Material palettes for everyone, derived from a personal signal—wallpaper—that can be applied to their entire experience."
I like my wallpapers to be striking, geometric, interesting, but ultimately distinctive from the rest of my phone, where I do want colours.
So I hope there will be another way to generate signals for the phone colour pallette.
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#18I don't like the squiggly sliders.
I find it funny that I went to the slider section and NONE of the images were actual sliders, even with "web" selected. At least Bootstrap let's you play with the controls on the actual page.
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#19Did I really just read several paragraphs of corporate marketing babble to discover that this is mostly about a universal wallpaper that carries over to your apps?? Also, the quote about form following feeling is basically ripped off from Apple/Jobs lore. Replace feeling with emotion and it’s almost a direct quote from the Isaacson biography.
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#20I upvoted solely for the use of an en dash ( – ) in the title, instead of a hyphen ( - ). Probably comes down to personal aesthetics, but I find it looks so much nicer! For users on Windows, I recommend setting up an AutoHotKey script to convert the string "==-" to "–", and "===-" to "—". Easy to type, very intuitive (typing more characters gives a longer-width dash), and gives your carefully crafted email missives a…
On Mac, it is Alt Minus and Alt Shift Minus