The story behind the new Android design language

"TechWeb report" lively Google I/O Conference has ended, the new Android L system to make Android powder excited, especially its new design language material designed to add a lot of energy to Android. Foreign-media Wired presents a fascinating story behind the design language, and gives us a glimpse into Android's history. The following is the full text: The story behind the new Android design language in the last week's Google I/O conference, about 6,000 developers were eagerly looking forward to a brand-new Android system, and they were not disappointed. The new Android design is reasonable, elegant, and has some interesting details, such as the spread of color when your finger clicks on the phone or the tablet screen, or when you browse the page on your phone, the navigation bar becomes a small button. The new Android system uses the material design framework, which makes Google's various products such as Gmail,google Drive,google now more consistent on various platforms. In the past, Google mailbox Inbox on different platforms will appear in different places, and sometimes the color of the button is not the same. Material design will be the product of Google on each platform unified, which even Apple can not do. Google CEO Larry Page's support for the design team and the ongoing efforts of Matias Duvadi, vice president of Android design, Matias Duarte. It took Google three years to design this new system. Why is it so long? It may be that Google's divisions are fragmented, and the company is a hodgepodge. In this case, it is almost impossible to achieve a unified design plan. But Page wants to create a design culture, Duvadi also joined Google, Google's internal product team links between the more up, finally the turnaround finally arrived. Fragmentation leads to a decline in user experience the story behind Android's new design language Matias Duvadi has designed a popular web OS system for Palm before joining Google, which has a far-reaching impact on the smartphone interface. The design team's core members are now working at Apple, Facebook, and the company, but he chose Google. Yahoo CEO Marissa (Marissa Mayer) said Google's love for design is reflected in its test of 41 shades of blue to select the color of the hyperlink. The designers are excited to see what the design great God can do for Android. The team led by Duvadi at the outset. Android 4.0 is a start, but it still can't express the design that Google wants. Nicholas Jitkoff, senior designer in charge of material design, said: "There are a lot of teams that focus on one function but spend a lot of time designing the basics."In fact, they find the basic design style can start to design the application and add to the functions they feel important. For users, many of the application of the design idea is to simplify to increase trouble. Duvadi said: "We are the platform and product separately to consider, the Web platform and mobile platform team are also to solve their own problems to optimize, but no one to consider the needs of users, and no one realized how much trouble they caused users." Solution: Create a reasonable system for dynamic effects, three-dimensional and color creation the story behind Android's new design language look at material designs you'll know what the Duvadi team is doing: The new design language is concise, smooth and bold, almost like Google version of iOS 7. Android is going to kill the materialization! But this analogy is not very appropriate. As platforms grow and mobile platforms rise, the information that needs to be displayed on those small screens is as obvious as it can be. So you have to let your design language show clearly. Considering that your design will affect countless applications on Android, you can't do it too flashy. Flattening is not a strategy in itself, but it shows that many conflicting functions must be discarded in order to make the phone work. But how can you use your mobile phone to be fluent, natural and powerful? The two main solutions for this Duvadi team are three-dimensional and dynamic, and they have nothing new in themselves, which Apple has played in iOS 7. But it differs from iOS 7 in that its three-dimensional and dynamic effects are created for specific functions. With three-dimensional effects, every pixel on Android has been changed so that developers can also achieve masking effects. They are free to stack various elements without worrying about the style of the other developers, and users will not get lost in the system.