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jansan on May 16, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Material 3 Expressive

Biggest change seems to be that everything is round and purple now. It looks more playful and less professional.

Edit: I dislike their recent color picks. First that teal in Google Maps, now the purple. Why? Are they trying to copy the color paltette of the first Mecedes A-Class (aka "Listerine" colors [1][2])?

[1] https://prestigeandperformancecar.com/wp-content/uploads/A97...

[2] https://image.stern.de/31749130/t/Ag/v2/w1440/r0/-/01--artik...

onion2k on May 16, 2025 | [–]

It looks more playful and less professional.

That's intentional. Google's UX research is telling them that's what users (between 18 and 34 specifically) want more of.

dcrazy on May 16, 2025 | [–]

Those cars look like driveable iMacs.

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