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Re: Google Design

#52

Well done Microsoft: inspiring not one, but two major competitors. Metro aka Modern aka Material rocks!

Google is like "hey microsoft, look, we took your metro style, and we added bevels and shadows and stuff, yeah! Oh, we're back where we started :("

Re: Google Design

#53
post #3

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

You sound just like all of my feature-creepy enterprise customers. Yeah dude, looks nice, but it's not snappy. Make it so it's snappy. Or no money for you.

Re: Google Design

#55
I appreciate material's approach to replicating real world physics look. I'm curious though what other designs could be very productive even if they aren't intuitive out of the box and require some training to use them. Interfaces like the command line, APIs, text and even human languages require significant time to learn but they are worth the effort as they allow us to express an incredible range of concepts succinctly.

Re: Google Design

#56

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!

That's inspired by Windows Metro, not Material Design. In fact Material Design was created partly as a reaction against that style of design.

Re: Google Design

#58

Well done Microsoft: inspiring not one, but two major competitors. Metro aka Modern aka Material rocks!

I preferred the iOS1-6 Design and the Win95-Win7 Design. Though Material Design as in Android 5 is very nice. One cannot compare it to Metro of Win8 with its distasteful colors.

Re: Google Design

#59
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That's exactly what people said with their "Designed for IE" websites back during 2000 to 2004. Whatever happened to coding according to web standards? This isn't a small boutique shop that cannot afford testing, this is a huge multinational company.

> That's exactly what people said with their "Designed for IE" websites back during 2000 to 2004. Hardly. Mozilla/Gecko may have been obscure at the time, but it was under active development. Opera is very definitely dead. > Whatever happened to coding according to web standards? So by "web standards" do you mean "older web standards supported by an outdated browser"?

>Hardly. Mozilla/Gecko may have been obscure at the time, but it was under active development. O

Firefox had about 3% share at the end of 2004, even less before that.

>Opera is very definitely dead

Huh what? Opera is still under active development.

http://blogs.opera.com/desktop/

>So by "web standards" do you mean "older web standards supported by an outdated browser"?

No, I mean current web standards.

Re: Google Design

#60
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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?"

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