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Re: Google Design

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Post by fixermark »

wlesieutre wrote: post #5
CHY872 wrote: post #3

Web page is nice-looking, but isn't snappy (at least not on my laptop).

Scolling is smooth in IE on a Surface Pro 3, but not in Firefox. That's pretty typical. What's unusual is that it's visibly janky in Firefox on this desktop with an i7 and a Quadro FX 580. Sure, it's not a brand new workstation, but it should be able to scroll a webpage...

Unfortunately, since the w3c standards don't include any constraints for performance, it's entirely possible Google's code is optimized for Chrome and iOS and not (yet?) Firefox.

Re: Google Design

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Post by nandhp »

joezydeco wrote: post #11
troycarlson wrote: post #10

Am 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.

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!

I actually like that homepage. It seems like a nice alternative to tabs, especially if they put useful information in the collapsed tiles (essentially becoming Windows Live Tiles or whatever they're called).

Re: Google Design

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Post by meraku »

kbd wrote: post #34

The 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?

I'm also wondering the same thing. This new trend of putting a create button in the bottom right of the screen seems counter intuitive and annoying. Fortunately, both the Mint and Reddit apps allow it to be turned off, but I'm not looking forward to seeing this spread to other applications.

Re: Google Design

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Post by zxcvcxz »

troycarlson wrote: post #10

Am 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.

Ehh.. It's like reading a comic book. Wasn't too hard for me to figure out.

I'm not a fan of Material design though, I just think it's tacky.

Re: Google Design

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Post by _random_ »

ryanSrich wrote: post #23
sethbannon wrote: post #16

"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?

No pixel-perfect alignment. Embracing the flaws.

Re: Google Design

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Post by MCRed »

zxcvcxz wrote: post #21
[deleted] wrote: post #13

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I'm not a fan of googles design principals, but Apple seems pretty generic imo. Especially their main site.

Your opinion is a data point, I'm not arguing against you below, because that would be futile- your opinion is a fact of how things are from your perspective.

Amazing to have gone from the one and only minimalist design company, standing out dramatically as a result to "pretty generic" in the perception of someone I'm guessing is under 30?

The interesting thing is, nobody, nowhere seems to be doing things as purely as Apple in terms of design, including their website...yet from your perspective you it seems generic, which means you feel like you see it everywhere.

Re: Google Design

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Post by xixixao »

FreakyT wrote: post #17
jfuhrman wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well at least it loaded for me in Opera, unlike the Google I/O site which reminded me of the dark days of the single browser web.

Opera basically is dead though, so I don't think one can reasonably expect new websites to test for it. Now, if it didn't work in Firefox or IE11, then that would be significantly more questionable. Edit: I'm assuming we're talking about classic Opera, not the Chromium build that is currently called Opera but is actually Chromium.

The layout is pretty broken in Firefox.

Re: Google Design

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Post by PuffinBlue »

fixermark wrote: post #20
sethbannon wrote: post #16

"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.

It's the right way to go in a world of not being able to predict the size of a render pane.

Oh, ok. And here's me just sitting here wondering what the heck it even means!
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