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http://www.google.com/design/videos/making-material-design/ http://www.google.com/design/videos/making-material-design/ - cannot make up my mind if this video

by dman 11y ago

http://www.google.com/design/videos/making-material-design/ http://www.google.com/design/videos/making-material-design/ - cannot make up my mind if this video is purposely designed to come across as farce. I could easily imagine this being in a satirical comedy film.

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tmalsburg2 11y ago
Yes, all these people talking as if there was a UI revolution going on. Nothing in this video convinces me that materials design solves any problem. Heck, they do not even identify a problem that it could solve. All we get is dropshadows (which were already lame in the 90ies) and fluffy designer bla bla.
- paulojreis 11y ago
  That's not "designer bla bla". Please don't mistake design for decoration. This is "pixel-pusher bla bla".
sesutton 11y ago
The whole video felt like something Apple would put out.
- illicium 11y ago
  That's precisely the point: Google is trying to convince everyone that they're as design-driven as Apple.
  - agumonkey 11y ago
    I can't tell if it's a 'grass is greener' thing, but after buying a Moto G in order to enjoy Lollipop/Material thinking the iOS flat redesign was lame. After a year of usage, I think lollipop isn't an improvement over KitKat, and worse than iOS (I do believe Apple knows some dark magic when it comes to user interfaces desktop or mobile). More and more I'm thinking there are 3 levels of usage for a mobile device. - Fixed and instant: calling/answering/taking a picture - Semi instant: finding directions (often less urgent than the previous) - Complex: browsing, reading the ~iPhone displaced the first level, which was the norm of dumbphone, fixed hardware interfaces. More and more OSes are aiming at making everything as the third. I can't get the lollipop phone interface in my mind, I'm even jealous of my mother's Bada based samsung.
- strange_quark 11y ago
  It seemed worse to me. At least after watching Jony Ive talk about the "genius" of his design, I feel like I know what problem they're trying to solve and what they're doing to solve it. This video just seemed like a joke and the only real takeaway I have is that drop shadows are back for some reason.
- paulojreis 11y ago
  I think there's a major difference: - When Apple talks about design, they do talk about design; - When Google talks about design, they talk about swishing, swirling, rippling effects and all that jazz. Not design, basically. Again, this is mistaking design for decoration. And this is something that engineering-driven companies typically do, when they try to say out loud that they care about design (or, in reality, when they try to look cool and fashionable/hip/whatever).
mjrbrennan 11y ago
I liked that none of them could reliably answer what exactly Material is at the start of the video. So much wankery.

by dman 11y ago

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tmalsburg2 11y ago

Yes, all these people talking as if there was a UI revolution going on. Nothing in this video convinces me that materials design solves any problem. Heck, they do not even identify a problem that it could solve. All we get is dropshadows (which were already lame in the 90ies) and fluffy designer bla bla.

paulojreis 11y ago
That's not "designer bla bla". Please don't mistake design for decoration. This is "pixel-pusher bla bla".

sesutton 11y ago

The whole video felt like something Apple would put out.

illicium 11y ago
That's precisely the point: Google is trying to convince everyone that they're as design-driven as Apple.
- agumonkey 11y ago
  I can't tell if it's a 'grass is greener' thing, but after buying a Moto G in order to enjoy Lollipop/Material thinking the iOS flat redesign was lame. After a year of usage, I think lollipop isn't an improvement over KitKat, and worse than iOS (I do believe Apple knows some dark magic when it comes to user interfaces desktop or mobile). More and more I'm thinking there are 3 levels of usage for a mobile device. - Fixed and instant: calling/answering/taking a picture - Semi instant: finding directions (often less urgent than the previous) - Complex: browsing, reading the ~iPhone displaced the first level, which was the norm of dumbphone, fixed hardware interfaces. More and more OSes are aiming at making everything as the third. I can't get the lollipop phone interface in my mind, I'm even jealous of my mother's Bada based samsung.
strange_quark 11y ago
It seemed worse to me. At least after watching Jony Ive talk about the "genius" of his design, I feel like I know what problem they're trying to solve and what they're doing to solve it. This video just seemed like a joke and the only real takeaway I have is that drop shadows are back for some reason.
paulojreis 11y ago
I think there's a major difference: - When Apple talks about design, they do talk about design; - When Google talks about design, they talk about swishing, swirling, rippling effects and all that jazz. Not design, basically. Again, this is mistaking design for decoration. And this is something that engineering-driven companies typically do, when they try to say out loud that they care about design (or, in reality, when they try to look cool and fashionable/hip/whatever).

mjrbrennan 11y ago

I liked that none of them could reliably answer what exactly Material is at the start of the video. So much wankery.