Neumorphism really helped sharpen my thinking on a dynamic color theming system heading into Material You. Neumorphism had no grounding besides "what would tre

Neumorphism really helped sharpen my thinking on a dynamic color theming system heading into Material You. Neumorphism had no grounding besides "what would trend on Dribbl that finally feels like a movement after years of iOS 7 aesthetic leading the way?" That isn't a design problem. "pure white background with overly dark blue", and neuomorphism was doubling on a very-not-skeuomorphic approach and attaching large shadows to it, simply because it created something "new" that felt "more realistic". No benefit to the user. No grounding in design principles. With Material You, sure, it's flat, but it's skeuomorphic in that _it works how color works in the real world_. (cf. Round Rects are Everywhere https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.txt https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_..., and replace with "Pure White and Black are Nowhere) Source: I wrote this, and also this post is my opinion, I do not speak for Google or its design: https://material.io/blog/science-of-color-design https://material.io/blog/science-of-color-design