The bugdroid is now in 3D lol

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      Looks like change for change sake.

      GUIs swing back and forth between 3D and flat ever since Microsoft released Internet Explorer 4 for Windows 95 which introduced flat GUI toolbars. That watercolor Office release had the look planned for WinXP but Apple released Mac OS X with its (for that time) super realistic 3D icons and GUI widgets and Microsoft wanted to counter that. In fact, most such changes were initiated by Apple and were never about functionality.

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    Don’t see why they couldn’t just spew iterative inclusive designs over the 2D one, this is kind of badly animated and has a 00s vibe to the concept. The disco ball-skinned and spiky mohawk examples are downright repulsive designs

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    I guess some designers needed to prove that Google needed them, or just had enough time for a vanity project.

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    They call the droid a bugdroid? Interesting name choice as a software bug normally isn’t a good thing.

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    From a design perspective, it’s awful. You don’t combine 2 similar but different fonts, with the same sizing and color, into one graphic. FFS it even has serifs AND sans serifs in the same bloody word.

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      Idk, I feel like Google has tested this stuff and it might just look better this way. For example, the G in Google isn’t perfectly circle nor are all the colors lined up correctly. Ironically, it’s slightly oval to optically make it look more circular.

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    They basically capitalized the A in Android lmao. I didn’t even know they officially uncapitalized it in 2019. Realistically the font change isn’t all that different and I don’t think many will care about that as much as us nerds do.

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    Just when you think abortion is under threat, one shows up in the Google Play store.

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      Whoa! Let’s watch our word choice! Google doesn’t abort things!

      They keep them alive for 9 months and then will unceremoniously dump the corpse into a nearby river. Their PMs don’t see the fun in killing something unless it’s already been adopted by consumers.