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why does everyone hate material you? (self.android)

submitted 7 months ago by nebula42 to c/[email protected]

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So I switched to a pixel 7 from an iphone 10 xs a few months back, and I've absolutely loved it in comparison to the locked down nature of an iphone. So I think to look up material you on YouTube for fun, and decide to read the comments and found that people hated it. Quick googling led to me to find two reddit threads and an article talking about how much they hated it. Personally, I don't understand the hate, as you can simply choose to have the color be a dullish blue manually.

Idk, it might just be that I haven't been using android long to care about the fact that material you is being forced.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Point 1 is 100% one consistent behavior across mobile platforms the last decade and change that has really been annoying.

I remember when BBOS went to "every icon is chrome" as an example of similar past mistakes.

No longer could one go, "I want Internet, click on blue/green circle." "I want messaging, click on blurple-dotted-weird-shape." It's much faster to identify an application by distinct colors and shapes than wasting brain cycles to read text on the screen through a monochromatic monoshaped boring UI.

The tech industry's desperate attempts to constantly "innovate" and get people to interact with their apps to drive false interaction metrics by pointlessly changing things seems to always lead down this path of mediocrity.

[–] Ottomateeverything 1 points 7 months ago

I couldn't agree more. Except maybe bits of the time line - it was barely beginning a decade ago - I'd say the past like 7 years have been bad though.

I really hate the move away from this. I don't give a flying fuck whether the icons mismatch - I want to be able to find them quickly and that's objectively harder when they're all the same shape. Brains process shape/silhouette extremely quickly and subconsciously and its much easier to find "weird envelope with an M poking out" and "crinkled up map" than it is "dot on the GREEN squircle".

I've been using custom launchers forever anyway, and I just use icon packs of the old style, but as that style gets older, it becomes harder and harder to match every app icon.