"Still enabling quieter minimalist designs, sure, but embracing bolder colors, more playful animations, and all around more overt approaches to interface."
I didn't realize that the existing phone interface was in some way covert. Or that minimalism is just when there are muted colors.
Reminds me of Android circa 2017 when I would have two identical but differently sized reminder icons in my notification bar (one from Calendar and one from Keep)
I tried the Material palette builder in Figma and for the life of me I couldn't get one that I liked, everything ended up muddy even starting with a color like #FF0066 🤣
Yeah, I spent weeks just trying to •understand• their system, even aside from the fact I could never get it to output a good palette for our brand that wasn’t absolute garbage.
We want our Android app to feel like a real Android app, but the color system was a nightmare non-starter.
These people have the very difficult job of justifying to the public why they change everything every two years. (It's a difficult job because the real answer is either "to get someone promoted" or "to make shareholders think we're innovating".)
it's not difficult. it's easy to talk about a new design, even if you're bullshitting. and yet they didn't use a single design-word. not color, not feeling, not nothing.
Wake me up when they can even muster enough internal influence to get product teams to adopt this. The last Material Design only ever reached a few corners of the company before being smothered.
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I didn't realize that the existing phone interface was in some way covert. Or that minimalism is just when there are muted colors.
In the era of meaningless bullshit, UI designers can't afford to be left behind.
At which point… what is your design system for?
Also, the color token names are super complicated.
We evaluated it, and just decided to ignore the whole color system for our app and use our own, much simpler system.
We want our Android app to feel like a real Android app, but the color system was a nightmare non-starter.
this isn't even well-composed enough to be a tweet.
a VP speaking to the press ought to be prepared with cogent things to say. this is unforgivable laziness.
And they certainly should. Goodness
the job is easy and yet they fail hard
Will I justify the previous statement? No