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Material 3 Expressive

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amluto ◴[] No.44006325[source]
Wow, in the process of making the send button slightly easier to find, they reduced the amount of actual content in the screen by a couple lines. And they still overlay controls on the content, thus obscuring some of it, just like earlier versions of Material Design.

The prettier and more fun modern UIs get, the more I miss the UIs of the nineties. Controls looked like controls, screen space was well utilized, and even workflows that weren’t the most common were generally well supported.

<sarcasm>I suppose if an LLM writes your email for you, you don’t actually need to see all the text yourself.</sarcasm>

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1. jjice ◴[] No.44008826[source]
I feel like the discoverability for less screen real estate tradeoff is a bad one for a product that you're going to use regularly. Something like Gmail is not a one-off used by an individual, so if it takes 4 times longer to find something that'll take 5 seconds the first time, I really don't think that's a good trade off.

I think it's completely okay to expect someone to have to learn a UI/UX if it is better in the long run (assuming it's not a product that gets used twice a year).