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Re: Google Design

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Post by spankalee »

zxcvcxz wrote: post #45
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.

Do you mean Material Design is tacky?

Polymer is just a library to help you make Web Components. They don't have to be Material Design.

Re: Google Design

#72

Post by ryanSrich »

erispoe wrote: post #33
ryanSrich wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

But ultimately the pixels are colored, are they not? To me this reads as a way to acceptably talk about degrading designers...

"Well we aren't employing those pesky 'Pixel Pushers' anymore. No. We are moving towards a jazz inspired design, it's more important and sophisticated than just coloring pixels"

Please. Give it a rest.

(^ In case it needs to be pointed out that's not an actual quote from anything anyone said.)

There's no better case for Google putting zero thought into design than this new website.

I mean what is this? http://i.imgur.com/dGCCLzx.png (my attempt at balancing the grid on the bottom.)

Re: Google Design

#73

Post by mjhagen »

wldcordeiro wrote: post #38
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?

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.)

"most used actions" ... "invite others"

Re: Google Design

#74

Post by zxcvcxz »

spankalee wrote: post #71
zxcvcxz wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do you mean Material Design is tacky? Polymer is just a library to help you make Web Components. They don't have to be Material Design.

Yeah that's what I meant. I fixed the original comment.

Re: Google Design

#75

Post by mjhagen »

doczoidberg wrote: post #70

there exists the term "overengineered" for technical products. There should be a term "overdesigned" for user interfaces too. Material design is a good example for this.

I think it's overengineerd design.

Re: Google Design

#76

Post by Jare »

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!

That site is very clean, readable, understandable and (it seems) perfectly usable.

Re: Google Design

#77

Post by CHY872 »

kreeben wrote: post #53
CHY872 wrote: 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.

It's more that if you have a site that's designed to showcase how good your company is at designing websites, and the site doesn't run well on a high end laptop, then it doesn't say much for your design, as it suggests you emphasise form over functionality.

Re: Google Design

#78

Post by wavefunction »

wavefunction wrote: post #29

Our design team is trying to use Material guidelines in an upcoming app. I needed to remind them that while there are good elements in the guidelines, there is a lot that isn't good and they need to leave those parts behind. This certainly reinforces that feeling for me.

lol, downvoted for expressing anti-Material sentiment.

Google design guidelines as put in place by Google are hit-or-miss. Just look at switching between accounts on say, Google Analytics. Multiple view refreshes and double the user actions to do what once could be done from the same view with a click to logout and a click to login followed by typing your credentials.

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