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The only thing worse than modern Material is when there was a multi-year (?) period where Google didn't think buttons needed any affordance indicating they were
by fl0ki 2y ago
The only thing worse than modern Material is when there was a multi-year (?) period where Google didn't think buttons needed any affordance indicating they were buttons, not in shape, contrast, color, etc. and with touch UIs you don't even get hover feedback like you would on the web.
Reading between the lines, I can see that Google was inspired by the post-skeumorphic minimalism of iOS, but took the wrong lessons away from it. Some of that has been walked back, but far from enough.
- fngjdflmdflg 2y agoTo me Material looks like Google looked at iOS and compared it to their then rectangle-box based UI and said "Our UI is too bland compared to Apple. We must need tons of border radius and padding. And big splash animations when you touch a button!" Some people used to look down on Apple's UI as "fisher price" but Google has long taken that crown in my book. When I make flutter apps for side projects I just use the Apple based widgets (called Cupertino [0]). [0] https://docs.flutter.dev/ui/widgets/cupertino https://docs.flutter.dev/ui/widgets/cupertino
- pentagrama 2y agoI remember being annoyed by those text buttons, looking at the latest iteration of Material, it looks like they keep the "text" button style but as a secondary option https://m3.material.io/components/all-buttons https://m3.material.io/components/all-buttons Looking at the examples I think that it works in some contexts, but is a personal feel that I have.