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STOP DOING MATERIAL DESIGN. - Colors should not be given semantic names. A dark blue is called “navy”, not “on-primary-container”. - YEARS of trying to unify apps with one design system yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for anything other than 2011 HOLO. - “Dividers with an inset left margin should be 16 D.P. where D.P. equals (width in pixels times 160) divided by screen density”  - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged. LOOK at what Google Designers have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the websites and apps we built for them. These are REAL designs, done by REAL Google Designers. A time picker clock. A dragger with a squiggly progress line. An organic-blobby shaped widget. “Hello I would like a hexagonal button with cut corners that are slightly rounded”. They have played us for absolute fools.

Like 1 8 June at 21:31 | Open on hachyderm.io

4 comments

wizzwizz4

@samhenrigold HOLO is nice. (source: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2012/01/holo-everywhere.html)

8 June at 22:14 | Open on fosstodon.org

moshibar

@samhenrigold@hachyderm.io unpopular opinion but I quite like material design, though skin ability would be super fucking cool

8 June at 22:24 | Open on fedi.catboy.agency

Anselm Schüler

@samhenrigold I loved the original material design
the new versatile material design is ok I guess

8 June at 22:27 | Open on ieji.de

ocdtrekkie

@samhenrigold I left Android after Holo and I am glad I did. I mostly left for the obscene privacy issues and security holes... but avoiding being assailed by Material was a nice perk.

9 June at 3:17 | Open on mastodon.social

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