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The new design is pretty awful too. Material Design has accessibility problems for people with motion sensitivity. Everything animates, even if you aren't suppo

The new design is pretty awful too. Material Design has accessibility problems for people with motion sensitivity. Everything animates, even if you aren't supposed to be looking at it at the time. Sudden movement can cause nausea, especially if there's an initial delay and/or parallax effect. Many people are complaining about it. There needs to be more aesthetic restraint. Animation should be a very thin layer of icing on the cake, not 50% of the cake. "Animation spam" would be an accurate term.

i1856511 9y ago
Could you please provide a source for the anti-Material dialogue from an accessibility perspective? I have been suspicious that this might be the case, with Google and other companies.
- JoshMnem 9y ago
  I'll try to round up some comments later tonight. I have visual-motion sensitivity, and plan to write some articles on some of the problems with recent animation trends. I'm also planning on creating browser extensions that disable CSS animations and other spammy problems with UI design. It's really difficult for me to use Google's new designs. I switched to Thunderbird/Lightning until I can find a Google Calendar replacement. I removed most apps from my phone and turned off most notifications, because it's too stressful to use it. There needs to be a low-animation setting. Designers should be asking themselves, "how do I make this UI functionality clear with the absolute minimum of animation?"
  - dman 9y ago
    Designers also need to ask what is the economic price of disrupting existing user expectations.
  - milas 9y ago
    At least on Android you can disable most animation in the Developer Settings app. I'm guessing how much that affects individual apps varies wildly, however.
    - crtasm 9y ago
      I set three options for animation to 0/disabled in there. Phone felt much faster but it took me a couple weeks to realise why Blackberry's swishy "you're plugged in, want to fast charge? or transfer data?" semicircle popup was no longer appearing. No way to transfer data without reenabling one of the options.
inetknght 9y ago
I'm pretty livid that Google Voice followed in the same web UX design. I loved the old Google Voice web UI. The new one? It's significantly slower and uses more resources. I don't see where it improved anything whatsoever.
JoBrad 9y ago
To add on to the design issues: I routinely get calendar invites which show up as a calendar invite in Gmail, but I cannot accept or add them to my calendar except on the web. This is using the Gmail app. I can’t accept them at all in Inbox - even on the web, so I have to go to to GMail (web) to accept them. It really feels like calendar invites are a secondary thing for Gmail, which really strikes me as odd since Google Calendar is so great.

i1856511 9y ago

Could you please provide a source for the anti-Material dialogue from an accessibility perspective? I have been suspicious that this might be the case, with Google and other companies.

JoshMnem 9y ago
I'll try to round up some comments later tonight. I have visual-motion sensitivity, and plan to write some articles on some of the problems with recent animation trends. I'm also planning on creating browser extensions that disable CSS animations and other spammy problems with UI design. It's really difficult for me to use Google's new designs. I switched to Thunderbird/Lightning until I can find a Google Calendar replacement. I removed most apps from my phone and turned off most notifications, because it's too stressful to use it. There needs to be a low-animation setting. Designers should be asking themselves, "how do I make this UI functionality clear with the absolute minimum of animation?"
- dman 9y ago
  Designers also need to ask what is the economic price of disrupting existing user expectations.
- milas 9y ago
  At least on Android you can disable most animation in the Developer Settings app. I'm guessing how much that affects individual apps varies wildly, however.
  - crtasm 9y ago
    I set three options for animation to 0/disabled in there. Phone felt much faster but it took me a couple weeks to realise why Blackberry's swishy "you're plugged in, want to fast charge? or transfer data?" semicircle popup was no longer appearing. No way to transfer data without reenabling one of the options.

inetknght 9y ago

I'm pretty livid that Google Voice followed in the same web UX design. I loved the old Google Voice web UI. The new one? It's significantly slower and uses more resources. I don't see where it improved anything whatsoever.

JoBrad 9y ago

To add on to the design issues: I routinely get calendar invites which show up as a calendar invite in Gmail, but I cannot accept or add them to my calendar except on the web. This is using the Gmail app. I can’t accept them at all in Inbox - even on the web, so I have to go to to GMail (web) to accept them. It really feels like calendar invites are a secondary thing for Gmail, which really strikes me as odd since Google Calendar is so great.