Did Google fire their UI and UX team? Wow. Is this Web 3.0 - the final chukkah for full-on awful craptastic interfaces that finally drive us back to lean text sites?
Google Design
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's gonna get worse before it gets better.... http://beta.united.com/ It it a button? Or a dialog box? Maybe it's an ad. Flip a coin!
Exactly...I don't understand it :( The new Azure portal looks very similar and it's borderline unusable. Unless I'm just resistant to change and will eventually warm up to it but it seems to violate a lot of fundamental design principles.
I can assure you, it's not just you. To me, this is more of an artistic style than a design. A designer needs to communicate usability to the user. You need to know what's a button and what's not. You need to know the borders. And you need to be able to look at the interface without it causing undue strain (this is the part that google got wrong- bright colors are an easy way to make something look fresh but they increase eye strain.)
The impact isn't so bad, though because once you get past this style into an app you're looking at a mostly white screen with color for the buttons and the buttons are well placed in standard places most of the time so you can know they are buttons.
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#33"We're no longer controlling every pixel. It's more like jazz improvisation." Matias Duarte, VP Design @ Google. Super interesting concept. The abstraction of design.
That seems super wand wavy and ambiguous. What is that even supposed to mean? Anyone have a guess?
It means programmatic design. You design relations and interactions between things instead of coloring pixels.
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#34The most iconic feature of "material design" to me is the "create" button in the lower right-hand corner. Except if you're in landscape in, say, Gmail, it's in the center bottom since it's a part of the message list.
Can someone explain why a create button is given this privileged and inconsistent position instead of being in a menubar like every other button in every app ever?
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#35Google bragging about design is like the nazis bragging about human rights
Don't be so hard on them, they've done a fantastic job. Material design is a purely graphic framework, not a way to decide which feature is going where (which googles still desesperately sucks at).
The guys that created material design should be put in charge much more, because they're obviously the only one that have a true vision for that company. To me, that reflection should have been made on the very first iteration of android. Much like microsoft went with tiles, and ios initialy went with skueumorphics ui.
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#36Am I the only one who gets a headache trying to decipher tile layouts like this? My eyes bounce back and forth and I still have no idea how the information is structured or what's important. I appreciate that Google is sharing all of this though.
Extensive user testing has shown that the "headache" you're experiencing is actually from a rush of incredible clarity and intuitiveness with this new design! :-P
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#37This website is overwhelming with a full screen.
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#38The most iconic feature of "material design" to me is the "create" button in the lower right-hand corner. Except if you're in landscape in, say, Gmail, it's in the center bottom since it's a part of the message list. Can someone explain why a create button is given this privileged and inconsistent position instead of being in a menubar like every other button in every app ever?
The Floating Action Button or FAB is supposed to be more than just a single action, usually it's a menu of the most used actions (in Google Inbox for example it allows you to compose an email, invite others, add a reminder and lists your most recent contacts.)
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#39Hmm. Material design is clicking twice on the play button to launch a Youtube video.
So true. They talk about paying attention to the UI, and totally forget the UX in some places.
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#40Am I the only one who gets a headache trying to decipher tile layouts like this? My eyes bounce back and forth and I still have no idea how the information is structured or what's important. I appreciate that Google is sharing all of this though.
Back button doesn't work right on that site. It gets you back to the top of previous page, it doesn't take you down where you were on the page. I love modern web UX. (Firefox & Chromium. )
Modern Web UX: "Because hey, who really cares about disabled people?"