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We're no longer controlling every pixel. It's more like jazz improvisation. - Matias Duarte Source? What does that mean?
Either meaningless nonsense, or displays a complete ignorance of jazz. You pick.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The whole video felt like something Apple would put out.
That's precisely the point: Google is trying to convince everyone that they're as design-driven as Apple.
More and more I'm thinking there are 3 levels of usage for a mobile device.
- Fixed and instant: calling/answering/taking a picture
- Semi instant: finding directions (often less urgent than the previous)
- Complex: browsing, reading
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 not just the layout, the terminology is based on presumed knowledge. The second panel of information is a video covering "color theory" and goes off almost straight away talking about using "the 500s" and moving to "the 700s". I've no clue what this means. What is a 700? Strangely a google search yields no results as to what this means, but the video takes it as fact I should know what it's on about.
We're no longer controlling every pixel. It's more like jazz improvisation. - Matias Duarte Source? What does that mean?
Hmm. Material design is clicking twice on the play button to launch a Youtube video.
Putting dots in the space between words makes it harder to distinguish word boundaries, which makes the text difficult to read. If design hinders usability, it's not good design.
http://www.google.com/design/videos/making-material-design/ - cannot make up my mind if this video is purposely designed to come across as farce. I could easily imagine this being in a satirical comedy film.
The whole video felt like something Apple would put out.
http://www.google.com/design/videos/making-material-design/ - cannot make up my mind if this video is purposely designed to come across as farce. I could easily imagine this being in a satirical comedy film.
Yes, all these people talking as if there was a UI revolution going on. Nothing in this video convinces me that materials design solves any problem. Heck, they do not even identify a problem that it could solve. All we get is dropshadows (which were already lame in the 90ies) and fluffy designer bla bla.
Google 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 itera…
Exactly! And, as such, they should advertise it as it is. Merely graphical stuff, not an UI revolution, not better usability nor UX (where are the tests saying so?). I wish they just admit that they're trying to make something which looks cool (nothing wrong with that), not necessarily better UX-wise.