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Material 3 Expressive

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332 points meetpateltech | 2 comments | 13 May 25 17:20 UTC | HN request time: 0.398s | source
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jamalaramala ◴[16 May 25 13:22 UTC] No.44005192[source]▶
Oh my god, this is ugly as fuck.

It reminds me a study about the perception of beauty among students of arts.

Before they start their studies, their perception of beauty is similar to everyone's.

But as they go through their course, their perception starts to shift. What they see as "beautiful" doesn't match the perception of others.

They learn what "skeuomorphism" is, and suddenly everything must be flat and undifferentiated.

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1. wisty ◴[16 May 25 14:07 UTC] No.44005725[source]▶
I think it's actually less flat, with more affordances (though not quite skeuomorphic).

Basically "oops we made it too flat, let's make those buttons big and colourful so people can see them again". It's a step forward after two steps back.

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2. Groxx ◴[16 May 25 17:28 UTC] No.44007916[source]▶
It's worth comparing to where it came from: https://m1.material.io/

v3 is flatter than the flat design that v1 was a reaction against because it had such bad affordances.