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Re: Material 3 Expressive

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Post by onion2k »

jansan wrote: post #97
vvillena wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For anyone not familiar with previous designs, each component in https://m3.material.io/components has a "comparison with Material v2" section.

Biggest change seems to be that everything is round and purple now. It looks more playful and less professional. Edit: I dislike their recent color picks. First that teal in Google Maps, now the purple. Why? Are they trying to copy the color paltette of the first Mecedes A-Class (aka "Listerine" colors [1][2])? [1] https://prestigeandperformancecar.com/wp-content/uploads/A97... [2] https://image.stern.de/31749130/t/A…

It looks more playful and less professional.

That's intentional. Google's UX research is telling them that's what users (between 18 and 34 specifically) want more of.

Re: Material 3 Expressive

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Post by UncleMeat »

lm28469 wrote: post #100
arp242 wrote: post #14

> Expressive design makes you feel something. It inspires emotion, communicates function, and helps users achieve their goals. I sometimes wonder if the people writing this sort of thing really believe what they're writing? Their case study is mostly just "make buttons that people use a lot stand out". Oh wow! Such emotion! Much feels!

Since a few years I can't tell if these things are satirical or serious, a lot of people working for FAANG are completely delirious and barely connected to the reality of 99.999% of the population. > M3 Expressive designs were rated higher across desirability attributes, including “modernity,” “subculture,” and “rebelliousness.” What does it even mean ?

Truly is amazing how capitalism just consumes and repurposes everything.

Ah yes, our subculture is so rebellious as we use a product created by the fifth largest company in the world by market cap that makes $100,000,000,000 in profit annually.

We need détournement back.

Re: Material 3 Expressive

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Post by [deleted] »

jansan wrote: post #97
vvillena wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For anyone not familiar with previous designs, each component in https://m3.material.io/components has a "comparison with Material v2" section.

Biggest change seems to be that everything is round and purple now. It looks more playful and less professional. Edit: I dislike their recent color picks. First that teal in Google Maps, now the purple. Why? Are they trying to copy the color paltette of the first Mecedes A-Class (aka "Listerine" colors [1][2])? [1] https://prestigeandperformancecar.com/wp-content/uploads/A97... [2] https://image.stern.de/31749130/t/A…

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Re: Material 3 Expressive

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Post by dotancohen »

zigzag312 wrote: post #7
Onavo wrote: post #4

Feels more like the original android from the HTC days. Brighter colors, more rounded corners, a happier vibe than the corporate material theme introduced by Ice Cream Sandwich.

It seems UI trends are going to repeat like fashion repeats itself in cycles.

UI trends _are_ fashion trends.

Re: Material 3 Expressive

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Post by hexomancer »

arewethereyeta wrote: post #92
hexomancer wrote: post #76

It's funny that the people who designed this monstrosity of a web page feel qualified enough to advice other people about design.

Who would be qualified enough to talk with you about new design trends then?those that design on your taste? Rarely, if ever, new design trends are liked by everyone. All in all, I think they are qualified enough.

Here are some objective issues with this page that I don't think is really up to taste (honestly these are so obvious that I assume you viewed the website on mobile which is fair, I never used the mobile version. Because I don't think anyone in good conscience would argue with the terribleness of the desktop version of the website). Note that I will not include many taste-based issues with the website (like the god-awful mouse cursor) because they could be attributed to taste. The following issues are objective issues though:

- Low performance. Because the website steals cursor rendering, moving the cursor feels bad and laggy. - The icon for the "menu" looks exactly like the mouse cursor. I don't think this constitutes good design.

- Also the icon for the menu doesn't look like the extremely established menu icon (even though it changes to that when you hover over it). Initially I th ought maybe it is a dark/light mode toggle.

- Speaking of the dark mode, the page flashbangs you halfway through scrolling the page for absolutely no reason.

- The link texts are borderline unreadable in the "light" section of the page when you hover over them.

Re: Material 3 Expressive

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Post by junon »

> By making the Send button larger and more prominent, participants were able to spot the button four times faster.

I mean... yeah. Of course they did, it takes up half the screen. A bit hard to miss.

It also made it so that editing text requires a microscope. I can immediately think of ten people in my social circle who would struggle with this due to various reasons, aside from subjective differences.

Re: Material 3 Expressive

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Post by bflesch »

How did these clowns manage to make my mouse cursor laggy? It is incomprehensible for me to live in such a big bubble with such a big paycheck and then spend zero brainpower on systems without graphics acceleration.

This is extremely bad engineering and these engineers should be called out for it. It takes a special kind of person to deliver this and be proud of it.

Once they made their millions at Google these engineers will be our landlords, angel investors, you name it. The level of ignorance is unfathomable. Very sad.

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