Good evening, fellow readers!
One thing you should know about me, is that I really enjoy working with pretty GUIs. Don't get me wrong, if the need arises, I can work on a rotten potato with a command line, but a properly designed user interface just makes me unreasonably happy.
Unfortunately, I did not like the recent developments in mobile design. Sorry, Apple, sorry, Microsoft, but your minimalistic flat interfaces just do not appeal to me. Google seemed to follow the same pattern for a while, but things changed in June when Material design was announced. The concept instantly caught my attention, but, as usual, I had to wait before I could use it with my own hand before I passed judgement.
And after several weeks of use, I must say that my expectations were met. Material-design apps seem to pop to life, and are all-around a pleasure to work with (developing them is a bit less pleasant, but more on that some other time).
The style seems to be catching on, too. Apart from the Google apps, I have already seen a file manager, a calculator and a task manager with Material, and there is a Linux distribution on it's way (check out Quantum OS, it looks fun).
Anyway, good job, Google designers! Keep up the good work!
One thing you should know about me, is that I really enjoy working with pretty GUIs. Don't get me wrong, if the need arises, I can work on a rotten potato with a command line, but a properly designed user interface just makes me unreasonably happy.
Unfortunately, I did not like the recent developments in mobile design. Sorry, Apple, sorry, Microsoft, but your minimalistic flat interfaces just do not appeal to me. Google seemed to follow the same pattern for a while, but things changed in June when Material design was announced. The concept instantly caught my attention, but, as usual, I had to wait before I could use it with my own hand before I passed judgement.
And after several weeks of use, I must say that my expectations were met. Material-design apps seem to pop to life, and are all-around a pleasure to work with (developing them is a bit less pleasant, but more on that some other time).
The style seems to be catching on, too. Apart from the Google apps, I have already seen a file manager, a calculator and a task manager with Material, and there is a Linux distribution on it's way (check out Quantum OS, it looks fun).
Anyway, good job, Google designers! Keep up the good work!
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