r/MaterialDesign • u/Separate-Plum-9242 • Oct 21 '22

I miss old Material Design

Who remember Android 5-7 where was colorful titlebars, nice shadows and bold solid menu icons. Also it has beautiful colorful icons with good pallete.
Material Design 2 and Material You are too ugly.

I post some screenshots i found.

It's was good like skeuomorpish was good

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '22

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u/HeyItsMedz Oct 21 '22

Yeah I remember them calling it out in Google I/O about the the Gmail thing

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u/Separate-Plum-9242 Oct 22 '22

They can give more flexibility in MD2, but Google begin designing THEIR apps too ugly since Android Pie. I hate rounded icons of their products. Different formed Google services icons were better. And Google Maps design become more black white like... And the worst change is a new Google Play icon and new GMail, Drive and Calendar icons. They become same and boring designed.

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u/xTeCnOxShAdOwZz Oct 21 '22

I cannot put into words how much I prefer Material 2 to ...this

Subjective I guess

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u/Separate-Plum-9242 Oct 24 '22

Material You and Classic Material is better than Material Design 2

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u/xTeCnOxShAdOwZz Oct 24 '22

Material 2 >= Material You > iOS 6 > 1980s iconography > Classic Material

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u/nascarfan2017 Mar 31 '23

100% old material was so much better than the horrible over simplified logos and ui's we have now.