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Re: Google Design

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Post by sukilot »

imaginenore wrote: post #63
meraku wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Bottom-right = easiest to reach spot on the phone if you hold it with your right hand. Though I agree the whole thing is inconsistent.

No, middle-top right is easiest. Bottom right is a stretch to reach.

Re: Google Design

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Post by currywurst »

nickysielicki wrote: post #47

I'm someone very comfortable with the internals of things. But my design sense is awful. My sites never look as polished as I'd like them to. How can I get a design sense?

It can be learned, by the same techniques you use to learn system internals: You can first do a quick scout for the big items (e.g. grid systems, typography instead of data structures, algorithms) so that you get the big picture, and then study designs that you like for the details of how they used these items together (like how you study frameworks, libraries or OSs)

Re: Google Design

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Post by leppr »

Haghn wrote: post #98
morb wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. )

Middle clicks on links are also pretty broken. Sometimes they do open the link in a new tab, something they open the link in the same tab, sometimes they do nothing. As someone who use mainly workstations with a at-least-three-buttons mouse, I feel web browsing is getting increasingly annoying.

Agreed, I'm not sure why Google is assuming everyone browsing their site will do so on mobile devices. Overriding the right/middle-click is hardly ever good UX design, and I'm wondering how they even managed to make it so inconsistent across tiles.

Re: Google Design

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Post by kinkora »

legohead wrote: post #84
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.

I've had Androids since way back, and while the UI has continuously gotten prettier, it has gotten harder and harder to use. I can 'feel' these new concepts as they roll them out, and then just get frustrated by them. It feels like they come up with certain standards/rules, and then have to adapt their UIs to it. So buttons are put in confusing places, with weird icons. Take the phone dialer for instance. I press the…

gosh, i could go on and on about the phone dialer.

What is the most frustrating thing about it is the "hang-up" button is a gigantic red button and right below it are the really minute buttons to fire up the dialpad, mute, conference, contacts, etc. Yep, what are the chances you will accidentally hang up while trying to find the dialpad or quickly mute your conversation.

Re: Google Design

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Post by mortehu »

Aleman360 wrote: post #133

Ah yes, modern web design; too much for my 6-core Xeon workstation to render smoothly.

It seems to be rendering at 60 fps without dropping frames on my old laptop, using Chrome.

It's still not worth seeing, though, other than as a warning about what can happen if you think adding graphical features is more important than solving problems.

Re: Google Design

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Post by kelvin0 »

Is this the Design world's equivalent of the Engineering world's 'over-engineered' syndrom? I appreciate that these people are trying to innovate, but it`s almost like they are Designing as for design's sake ... Hope I don't come off as too negative.

Re: Google Design

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Post by bluthru »

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 can't stand the FAB. It's too prominent. They've painted themselves in a corner and now it's being used even when it shouldn't be.

Put the tool up in the toolbar and stop blocking my content. The cynic in me assumes it's there because they like circles.

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