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Google has definitely stepped up their UI design with Jellybean. Oddly enough, at Google I/O they showed the Sports card with real MLB teams, and on this page,

Google has definitely stepped up their UI design with Jellybean. Oddly enough, at Google I/O they showed the Sports card with real MLB teams, and on this page, it's fake teams (likely due to licensing rules). But even worse, is that they didn't notice the line scores are out of alignment: http://www.google.com/landing/now/images/card-sports.png http://www.google.com/landing/now/images/card-sports.png (Top row of Clovers is shifted over).

perfunctory 14y ago
Maybe that's a feature
- Achshar 14y ago
  I can't see how that could be a feature. Misaligned list give wrong info, it looks more like a Photoshop mistake.
  - sigzero 14y ago
    I think he was "joking".
  - CrazedGeek 14y ago
    Maybe it's indicating the turn order?
    - papercrane 14y ago
      I'm positive you're right. Blaze is at home, so they are at bat in the first half of the inning, indicated by their row being shifted forward slightly. I think its a pretty clever design. Edit: Not so sure about it now. Its too bad it wasn't misaligned in the correct direction.
      - sirclueless 14y ago
        That can't be true. Even if it was deliberate for the inning scores, the Runs/Hits/Errors columns are out of whack which makes no sense.
      - corin_ 14y ago
        Any Baseball fan (even those of us who are English) know that the home team are on the bottom of a linescore, and that the away team bats in the top half of each inning - no indentation is needed to explain this.
      - detst 14y ago
        No, home teams bat second and are always listed on the bottom. This is simply misaligned. They're in the top of the 9th so that dash under the 8th inning for the Clovers should be shifted to the right.
        papercrane 14y ago
        Oops, that's what I get for not watching baseball. Its too bad they weren't misaligned in the other direction. I think it would be a great way to display the information.
mynegation 14y ago
Clean design, thin font, almost translucent colors, lots of space in between - this is definitely a preparation to and a testbed for the future functionality powering Google Glass
- randomfool 14y ago
  I really like the design of this- but it's such a contrast to the rest of Android. Compare Google Now to Google Play- Google Play just sends me into convulsions. Really hoping this design takes over Android, and ASAP.
veeti 14y ago
Sadly enough hardware manufacturers keep plastering their ugly skins on top of Android. The Android that most people will see is going to be an inconsistent mishmash of different designs.
ken 14y ago
I think this is just a symptom of a bigger issue. With these Google demo videos, like with most webpage commercials I see, the screenshots and videos don't look like actual screenshots, but just mock-up animations. I'm sure the baseball scores are aligned properly in the actual app. But it serves as a not-so-subtle reminder that this isn't what the actual app looks like, or how it behaves. In my mind, they're associating themselves with other companies who show completely fake visuals in commercials, like fast food.
- FireBeyond 14y ago
  I love how you compare oranges to apples, rather than to Apple. The most apt comparison you can make for doing this is "fast food", rather than the 800lb gorilla in the room, Apple, who had to be sued to include "screen images simulated" and "sequences shortened" in their iPhone ads...?
drivebyacct2 14y ago
Jellybean is pretty, but most of it is pixel-for-pixel identical to ICS. Which I found beautiful; I think there is just this stereotype of Android being ugly and laggy and I don't know what else needs to happen for people to get over that mental image. Even my Mom's non-Nexus running Gingerbread is snappy and pretty (pretty, especially next to circa-2003 iOS0

perfunctory 14y ago

Maybe that's a feature

Achshar 14y ago
I can't see how that could be a feature. Misaligned list give wrong info, it looks more like a Photoshop mistake.
- sigzero 14y ago
  I think he was "joking".
- CrazedGeek 14y ago
  Maybe it's indicating the turn order?
  - papercrane 14y ago
    I'm positive you're right. Blaze is at home, so they are at bat in the first half of the inning, indicated by their row being shifted forward slightly. I think its a pretty clever design. Edit: Not so sure about it now. Its too bad it wasn't misaligned in the correct direction.
    - sirclueless 14y ago
      That can't be true. Even if it was deliberate for the inning scores, the Runs/Hits/Errors columns are out of whack which makes no sense.
    - corin_ 14y ago
      Any Baseball fan (even those of us who are English) know that the home team are on the bottom of a linescore, and that the away team bats in the top half of each inning - no indentation is needed to explain this.
    - detst 14y ago
      No, home teams bat second and are always listed on the bottom. This is simply misaligned. They're in the top of the 9th so that dash under the 8th inning for the Clovers should be shifted to the right.
      - papercrane 14y ago
        Oops, that's what I get for not watching baseball. Its too bad they weren't misaligned in the other direction. I think it would be a great way to display the information.

mynegation 14y ago

Clean design, thin font, almost translucent colors, lots of space in between - this is definitely a preparation to and a testbed for the future functionality powering Google Glass

randomfool 14y ago
I really like the design of this- but it's such a contrast to the rest of Android. Compare Google Now to Google Play- Google Play just sends me into convulsions. Really hoping this design takes over Android, and ASAP.

veeti 14y ago

Sadly enough hardware manufacturers keep plastering their ugly skins on top of Android. The Android that most people will see is going to be an inconsistent mishmash of different designs.

ken 14y ago

I think this is just a symptom of a bigger issue. With these Google demo videos, like with most webpage commercials I see, the screenshots and videos don't look like actual screenshots, but just mock-up animations. I'm sure the baseball scores are aligned properly in the actual app. But it serves as a not-so-subtle reminder that this isn't what the actual app looks like, or how it behaves. In my mind, they're associating themselves with other companies who show completely fake visuals in commercials, like fast food.

FireBeyond 14y ago
I love how you compare oranges to apples, rather than to Apple. The most apt comparison you can make for doing this is "fast food", rather than the 800lb gorilla in the room, Apple, who had to be sued to include "screen images simulated" and "sequences shortened" in their iPhone ads...?

drivebyacct2 14y ago

Jellybean is pretty, but most of it is pixel-for-pixel identical to ICS. Which I found beautiful; I think there is just this stereotype of Android being ugly and laggy and I don't know what else needs to happen for people to get over that mental image. Even my Mom's non-Nexus running Gingerbread is snappy and pretty (pretty, especially next to circa-2003 iOS0