Can't understand why everything in lollipop is so white and bright, complely degraded the UX. Android was dark-ish from the start.. now all apps are following the same trend, which will only worsen the situation
Don't even get me started... Just wanted to add a user to my Google Apps domain. Couldn't for the love of god find the button. One minute passed. Tried CMD+F, nothing. Asked my colleague, Google Fanboy. Turned out that button was the only one completely hidden out of sight in the very lower right corner of my 27" cinema display and camouflaged in candy green, in stark contrast to the rest of the serious looking and actually usable interface because "material design" and "mobile first". Fuck that, it's just blatantly stupid and annoying UX. WTF?
I think Google is taking a lot of wrong decisions in terms of strategy. I really liked Material Design and how they tackled the UI discrepancies in their products, but on the Android world this is just a mess. If you want it, you need Lollipop that is just the 5% of the Android world. Can a developer ignore the 95% of the Google Play store? NO.
Then they ported Google Apps, it was nice, but Google Apps wasn't requiring a real re-style, but a better integration with apps and with their services too. Nope, we got a new UI.
It looks like they are prioritizing things that people are not caring now, at least, not so much compared to other things...
They could never get design right. First it was complete shit because they didn't care, then they copied Microsoft's metro and called it Holo, then they came up with Cards UI and now they have Material. Not one of these was properly implemented in their own apps, which should tell you a lot about their inner workings.
