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Material has nice animations and transitions, but is a catastrophe of UX. Just look at [design.google.com](https://design.google.com/ https://design.google.com/
by Artemis2 11y ago
Material has nice animations and transitions, but is a catastrophe of UX. Just look at [design.google.com](https://design.google.com/ https://design.google.com/).
- mattmanser 11y agoI don't actually like the animations either, quite a few are really, really bad. Fucking idiotic in fact, and I'm not saying that lightly. The click/tap ones are the worst offenders. Why is the animation of the button dependant on where I click the button? Because it's an uneven animation my mind immediately gets drawn to it and thinks "Woah, what just happened there, did something go wrong? What was that". And so after having done a simple action I spend a second or two with my mind replaying what just happened to try and figure out if something's wrong or not. And it still happens today, even though I know about it and I use several interfaces with Material design extensively. Because it's not consistent. It's literally the opposite of what an animation should be. It's incredibly intrusive and unsettling instead of being subtle but reassuring you that your desired action happened.
- Artemis2 11y agoI haven't used much Material in real life, but that's what I suspected: animations are nice, not functional.