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The most iconic feature of "material design" to me is the "create" button in the lower right-hand corner. Except if you're in landscape in, say, Gmail, it's in
by kbd 11y ago
The most iconic feature of "material design" to me is the "create" button in the lower right-hand corner. Except if you're in landscape in, say, Gmail, it's in the center bottom since it's a part of the message list.
Can someone explain why a create button is given this privileged and inconsistent position instead of being in a menubar like every other button in every app ever?
- wldcordeiro 11y agoThe Floating Action Button or FAB is supposed to be more than just a single action, usually it's a menu of the most used actions (in Google Inbox for example it allows you to compose an email, invite others, add a reminder and lists your most recent contacts.)
- mjhagen 11y ago"most used actions" ... "invite others"
- nightpool 11y agoIts probably in the same group because A) they want people to invite others and keeping it there helps people remember they can and B) its pretty much the same class of action as sending an email. here's a gif of me mousing over the FAB in my inbox: http://imgur.com/LuEZ57c http://imgur.com/LuEZ57c the yellow button at the very bottom is invite. Its hardly obnoxious, I can just continue to click and I don't have to think about it at all most of the time. (the top three are my three most frequent contacts)
- wldcordeiro 11y agoInvitation button might go away too since they opened Inbox to everyone.
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- meraku 11y agoI'm also wondering the same thing. This new trend of putting a create button in the bottom right of the screen seems counter intuitive and annoying. Fortunately, both the Mint and Reddit apps allow it to be turned off, but I'm not looking forward to seeing this spread to other applications.
- imaginenore 11y agoBottom-right = easiest to reach spot on the phone if you hold it with your right hand. Though I agree the whole thing is inconsistent.
- Artemis2 11y agoThis thing is infuriating, I never remember how to create a new file in Google Drive now (it's the bottom right FAB located at a place yet unexplored in every desktop UI ever).
- nightpool 11y agoHuh? This is a screenshot of my google drive: http://imgur.com/oGjzhTJ http://imgur.com/oGjzhTJ as you can see, "new" is in the same place its always been. No FAB. EDIT: in retrospect, you might be talking about the docs site. (docs.google.com rather then drive.google.com) I spose the only thing I have to say about that is that no design guidelines are a magic bullet, and that I have no idea why they even have that separate docs site.
- Artemis2 11y ago> you might be talking about the docs site That's the one! Google's products are so confusing sometimes.
- jontro 11y agoI always go into a previously created sheet or document and press create new. I really could not find it until I complained to a colleague and he told me
- bluthru 11y agoI can't stand the FAB. It's too prominent. They've painted themselves in a corner and now it's being used even when it shouldn't be. Put the tool up in the toolbar and stop blocking my content. The cynic in me assumes it's there because they like circles.