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In my opinion, the level of stretching and radially-wiping animations in material design is completely at odds with Google's claim that the central metaphor is
by clhodapp 12y ago
In my opinion, the level of stretching and radially-wiping animations in material design is completely at odds with Google's claim that the central metaphor is paper/cards. While I like most of their redesigned applications rather a lot, even if I try to force myself to see them as sheets of paper, I cannot, as the widgets actually behave almost nothing like paper.
- GeneralMayhem 12y agoThat's why it's a metaphor, not a strict skeumorphism. The core ideas taken from the concept of "paper" are stacking, layering, print-design-style blocks of color, and the idea that things can be shuffled and moved but cannot instantly appear and disappear in/out of thin air. That doesn't mean it's literally trying to be a pile of looseleaf, just that it's mimicking those abstract concepts from the real world in an attempt to make the interface intuitive and less "magical" (in the negative sense).