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"We're no longer controlling every pixel. It's more like jazz improvisation." Matias Duarte, VP Design @ Google. Super interesting concept. The abstraction of
by sethbannon 11y ago
"We're no longer controlling every pixel. It's more like jazz improvisation." Matias Duarte, VP Design @ Google.
Super interesting concept. The abstraction of design.
- fixermark 11y agoIt's the right way to go in a world of not being able to predict the size of a render pane.
- PuffinBlue 11y agoOh, ok. And here's me just sitting here wondering what the heck it even means!
- ryanSrich 11y agoThat seems super wand wavy and ambiguous. What is that even supposed to mean? Anyone have a guess?
- erispoe 11y agoIt means programmatic design. You design relations and interactions between things instead of coloring pixels.
- ryanSrich 11y agoBut ultimately the pixels are colored, are they not? To me this reads as a way to acceptably talk about degrading designers... "Well we aren't employing those pesky 'Pixel Pushers' anymore. No. We are moving towards a jazz inspired design, it's more important and sophisticated than just coloring pixels" Please. Give it a rest. (^ In case it needs to be pointed out that's not an actual quote from anything anyone said.) There's no better case for Google putting zero thought into design than this new website. I mean what is this? http://i.imgur.com/dGCCLzx.png http://i.imgur.com/dGCCLzx.png (my attempt at balancing the grid on the bottom.)
- imaginamundo 11y agoHover the search icon and you have the grid you wish. I would also do the same thing, isn't because a thing is hidden or need a gesture/action (in this case, the hover status), that the thing doesn't need to be in the grid.
- ryanSrich 11y agoThat's not a very graceful way of handling that though. I'm not saying it's not ok to break the grid, but at least make it logical. The element isn't even visible without interaction.
- _random_ 11y agoNo pixel-perfect alignment. Embracing the flaws.
- jamesdelaneyie 11y agoEmbracing the medium really.