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Re: Material You – The next stage for Material Design

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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…

The wiggly sperm play progress animation is incredibly distracting. UI should never obtrude on the actual content.

The sperm progress bar is the very definition of a jumping the shark moment.

Re: Material You – The next stage for Material Design

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There is an "app drawer". Swipe left from the home screen. Click in the search box.

That just shows "Siri Suggestions" and I have to type in the box. I don't want to search, keyboards on phones are universally bad. I want an alphabetized list.

Have you updated? It is an alphabetical list one you go into the search box.

Re: Material You – The next stage for Material Design

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I don't have much experience with iOS products, but I recall early in smartphone history being flabbergasted by the lack of basic affordances like a notification bar, or quick settings (eg to switch wifi on/off). I'd imagine both UIs are vastly different now, so I don't think that these examples are directly relevant. But I heard so much in those days about how iOS's UI was vastly superior and was so shocked by my fi…

1) yes. but I think it's better for it and obviously plenty of others do too including apple 2) no, home screen widgets in iOS have been a feature for a while now 3) no, iOS asks me if I want to open in Apple Maps or Google Maps. I think you're conflating features and design. Whether or not there's a particular feature (turn of WIFI), is not an attribute of the design. So you can fairly say the iOS feature set was to…

> yes. but I think it's better for it and obviously plenty of others do too including apple

This is unfalsifiable, and the line of thinking that generates it is trivially rebutted with a quick look at recent history. All of the limitations I mentioned were lauded as not-actually-useful by Apple (and their partisans) until they launched me-too version, at which point everyone immediately flipped to excitement.

Re: Material You – The next stage for Material Design

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That just shows "Siri Suggestions" and I have to type in the box. I don't want to search, keyboards on phones are universally bad. I want an alphabetized list.

Have you updated? It is an alphabetical list one you go into the search box.

My phone claims that it is up to date. iOS 14.5.1

All I see is "Siri Suggestions", no alpha list.

Re: Material You – The next stage for Material Design

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Have you updated? It is an alphabetical list one you go into the search box.

My phone claims that it is up to date. iOS 14.5.1 All I see is "Siri Suggestions", no alpha list.

Did you swipe left to right or right to ledt? Should be right to left to get to the "App Library" which has a search bar.

I guess you'll need to be on the last home screen... I only have 1 since this feature was introduced.

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