Material You UI - Review by a Senior Designer - Android 12 Redesign

Google introduced a new UI Design Language in their upcoming Android 12, called Material You. As you probably guessed it's all about personalisation, but it also shows a departure from minimalism, into a more organic, friendly set of patterns. Here's my first impressions about the UI change, not focusing on UX here too much, but the visuals are quite interesting in term of UI and graphic design.

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[manuj]

I was waiting for this!!!! ❤️❤️ A good analysis form a great designer! 😁 love the video.

[calblue]

I really enjoyed your thoughts and critiques on the design. I love how you gave constructive feedback at each point when you noticed an issue and your thought process behind that. I recently came across your channel as someone beginning to learn UI/U design and your expertise has been so helpful. Thank you! Subscibed!😄

[jameshuisang]

Love the humor in this video! As always thanks for sharing!

[pattycarljackson]

Great video! I’m excited for the final release as I’ve been on the beta since day one and I like the rounded and square buttons or even rectangular ones because it is different and I, not one of those people who wants every single button the exact same thing. My one hope and wish is that every app made by google gets this design and gets a full redesign unlike how it’s been with google apps thus far.

[josefernandes]

I love this approach by google!
I think the final version will correct some bugs that you described like the roundness inconsistency.

Looking forward to seeing this in my hand.

[IanTindale]

I like the inconsistencies and variations, at least it’s more possible now. It should also stimulate good designers to ‘correct’ a lot of the uncomfortablenesses thus making it their own.

[Matkai]

Great video! I love seeing your breakdown and thoughts. I agree with you on all accounts except the timeline design. While timelines are traditionally done as you are suggesting, I believe there is a shift towards the way Google has implemented the timeline in the mockup.

[freddybell]

This is easily the best looking smartphone os and it's not even close

[vandersijp]

You nailed it. Not everything is an improvement. The messy shapes, sliders, icon sizes etc. are definitely NOT an improvement. I miss the old shadows. Overall, the previous MD seems slicker than the new MY. Perhaps MY still needs to grow on me.

[zckom]

Late to watch you video on Material You, glad that I found it. I have the same thought with you in the beginning and I am a bit of OCD in arranging my phone desktop. However, after trying to rebuild my phone desktop with irregular shapes and asymmetric arrangement, I feel ease and relax using it. Somehow, it breaks my OCD.
For the part at 6:22, it is inherited from Samsung OneUI design which screen is broken down into 2 sections: Viewing Section and Interaction Section. Samsung was trying to reduce items on view section, so that it is easier to use especially with one hand. This viewing section will be reduced to a smaller section when the screen is scrolled up. To be honest, I think this move is quite brilliant from Samsung.
Anyway, I like your review so much that I hope to see more reviews from you on different UI/UX.

[DMRVR]

It just seems so inconsistent. I’m hoping they fix a lot of the inconsistencies before release. Great video!

[chengcheng]

This is a extremely informative video, great work!

[desirpembele]

Thanks for your review, very interesting!

[lendocal]

Excellent review mate....well done. Thanks!

[rdpll]

Good job. I hope Google will watch your review

[kartikk]

Great video!
Have you considered reviewing car UX and design languages?
With car manufacturers moving towards a touch screen first paradigm, this might be a great venue to expand into.
Would love to see a review of the Tesla UX, iDrive 8 and MBUX.

[StijnHommes]

But the quick settings shade is stuck with massive buttons that don't fit. I don't get to stick with the design that I have and want. It's still not about me. If it was, I would have the choice of whether I got this "update" or not.

[thatswhatshesaid]

Those small icons on big shapes made me uncomfortable too.
Google also went to a great length with animation. Let's hope the stable version looks and works great.

[victorduarte]

Nice points! I am very curious about accessibility with all this personalization, I believe visual and cognitive disasters are more likely to happen with this new UI.

[kamilwaszewski]

Fantastic analysis, I like it so much!