On: Material Design Guidelines for Dark Mode

[reaperducer]

I'm just not a fan of Material. I've tried to like it, but it just won't stick.

I know a lot of people think Material=Professional. But I think Material looks more like a small business using a drag-and-drop home page builder. Yes, that goes for the Android interface, too.

I never understood the hatred for skeuomorphism. It's intuitive. It's pretty. It's colorful. It's artistic. A bunch of stacked squares isn't any of those things.

Fortunately, I still have a launch day iPhone that I occasionally use for music, and it can't be "upgraded" out of its skeuomorphic splendor.

[afiori → reaperducer]

IMO, when well done, Material design looks like skeuomorphism for movement.

That is probably correlated with my taste for minimalist/stylized animation/graphics.

Arguably often it appears just low effort, empty and forgettable.