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Material You – The next stage for Material Design

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Re: Material You – The next stage for Material Design

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Post by pjmlp »

donatj wrote: post #22
reikonomusha wrote: post #15

I 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 de…

I suspect it’s structural, and that Apple has a lot more levels of internal design critique — in everything top to bottom. Google seems more loosely linked and in most things seems like the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing.

Naturally, otherwise how to justify PWA vs ChromeOS vs Fuchsia vs Flutter vs JetPack Compose.

Re: Material You – The next stage for Material Design

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Post by alt-enter »

isaacimagine wrote: post #27

Seems like this will be an unpopular opinion, but I like the design. How appealing a design is is personal preference, and I think a lot of the elements advertised, say, squiggly sliders, show the flexibility of the system; it's not like all sliders will be squiggly, but it opens up the possibility while still working with the rest of the design language. The emphasis on customization is important as well - a more fl…

I'm with you on that. Customization is important to me (one of the main reasons I use Android), and I'm eager to see how this turns out. I really appreciated the custom styling options added to Google Now Launcher and this feels like the next step.

Re: Material You – The next stage for Material Design

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Post by slver »

reikonomusha wrote: post #15

I 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 de…

> Apple can do it

Apple is still slowly recovering from its iOS7 moment, so not a great example.

Re: Material You – The next stage for Material Design

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Post by Rebelgecko »

Mandelmus wrote: post #35
pimlottc wrote: post #9

Have we officially hit peak Corporate Memphis? https://www.wired.co.uk/article/corporate-memphis-design-tec...

> “Isometric perspective is interesting, because nothing recedes to a vanishing point,” Rudnick says, “and therefore it also eliminates the variable of time.” He points out that this type of design is particularly popular with fintech and mortgage companies – playing down the passage of time is particularly advantageous to firms selling financial products that you may end up paying off for years. What the fuck do van…

distance = rate * time

For a mortgage company, you don't have a ton of flexibility with your rates— there's a little wiggle room but for the most part your rates will be correlated with the Federal Reserve's interest rates. However, you can control the distance, which lets you alter the logo's perception of time.

Re: Material You – The next stage for Material Design

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Post by EvilEy3 »

pjmlp wrote: post #41
donatj wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I suspect it’s structural, and that Apple has a lot more levels of internal design critique — in everything top to bottom. Google seems more loosely linked and in most things seems like the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing.

Naturally, otherwise how to justify PWA vs ChromeOS vs Fuchsia vs Flutter vs JetPack Compose.

You just listed 5 unrelated teams that have nothing in common. What's you point?

Re: Material You – The next stage for Material Design

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Post by ankurdhama »

I wish instead if this they would have added an official "Desktop mode" for Android so that you can connect the phone to monitor/keyboard/mouse and use it like a desktop. Once this becomes part of the android base platform, we would not have to depend on other companies (like Dex from Samsung).

Re: Material You – The next stage for Material Design

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Post by pjmlp »

EvilEy3 wrote: post #46
pjmlp wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Naturally, otherwise how to justify PWA vs ChromeOS vs Fuchsia vs Flutter vs JetPack Compose.

You just listed 5 unrelated teams that have nothing in common. What's you point?

Oh but they do, each of them wants us to write apps and devices with their OS/technology stack.

Lets see which one of them wins out the Google political wars on the long term of Google Attention Span (TM).

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