Material You took over from Material Design in 2021, when Google implemented it alongside Android 12. Since then, more and more apps, services, and even corners of our favorite operating system have adopted the design languageoffering the search engine giant a minimalist aesthetic in tune with the new times.
While 2023 is already slipping away from us, we’re going to take an overview of all the sites that received their dose of Material You during these 12 months. There have been many, and there is no doubt that Android is a nicer place thanks to these redesigns.
Material Yourself in the soup
From Xataka Android we follow all the latest news on the Google ecosystem, its operating system and of course, its services and applications. So, since the beginning of the year almost over, we have discovered new redesigns
At 9to5Google they make a summary from which we extract the best changes in the application interface popular like Google Chrome, but let’s start at the beginning. In January, the application that allows us to locate our lost cell phone adopted Material You as well as dark mode. And so began a new adventure for Material You, which, as we will see, was quite significant.
On the other hand, Google Calendar has added a new way to share the events of our calendar, while also updating the design of your widgets for you material. Now they look more beautiful than ever on our desktop, being one of the widgets that make our lives easier.
Google Drive has also changed in 2023, with small adjustments that They update their aesthetic to Material 3. Of course, we are referring to the web and Android tablet versions. The American company’s cloud service has been in the news for failing to delete user files.
The applications and services discussed so far have been adapted to this design language in a subtle way, since they already had the main guidelines. However, we saw the biggest change in the Google Time redesign, which finally reached everyone in October, previously coming to the Pixel. It was a catastrophic change, but above all necessary. The best thing is that our beloved frog is still here
Material You continues to have adventures. Most notable: Google Weather
In specialized media they also name the account selector, that section that almost all Google applications integrate and which allows us to change the account used. Appears in Gmail, Drive, Maps and even the Play Storeand as we can see, it respects the design lines of Material You.
Eventually, Google Chrome, the most popular browser, has been completely redesigned on computers. On mobile, the home screen now respects the Dynamic color (accent color) that we establish in Android, something that improves the consistency of the operating system.
These are the news from Google regarding Material You, which continues to develop. Perhaps next year we will see the next stage of this design language, which undoubtedly improved the aesthetics both Android and the search giant’s services.
By | 9to5Google
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