The bugdroid is now in 3D lol

    • ijeffM
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      111 year ago

      Those new animations seem pretty oriented toward video ads.

    • Pasta Dental
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      51 year ago

      To me this screams AR/VR focus in the next versions, I think they want to go after Apple’s Vision Pro and do kind of like they did a few years ago when they brought some depth to the MacOS icons

    • @[email protected]
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      111 year ago

      Looks like change for change sake.

      GUIs swing back and forth between 3D and flat ever since Microsoft released Internet Explorer 4 for Windows 95 which introduced flat GUI toolbars. That watercolor Office release had the look planned for WinXP but Apple released Mac OS X with its (for that time) super realistic 3D icons and GUI widgets and Microsoft wanted to counter that. In fact, most such changes were initiated by Apple and were never about functionality.

    • kib48
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      41 year ago

      it does match Material You better imo

  • katy ✨
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    221 year ago

    I love it but also if they ever get rid of the mascot I’m going to cry worse than getting rid of the desserts

    • Captain Aggravated
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      111 year ago

      It is my understanding that the “bugdroid” was not designed to be Android’s official logo, the artist released it under a Creative Commons license, and Alphabet has adopted it as a mascot. Even if Google deprecates its use, it’s still out there.

  • @[email protected]
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    211 year ago

    Don’t see why they couldn’t just spew iterative inclusive designs over the 2D one, this is kind of badly animated and has a 00s vibe to the concept. The disco ball-skinned and spiky mohawk examples are downright repulsive designs

  • Amy :3
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    171 year ago

    I don’t like the capitalization of the letter A

    It looks… Wrong for some reason

    • Dept
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      111 year ago

      seems like the lowercase era of silicon valley is over

  • Pasta Dental
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    161 year ago

    Waiting for the people who keep saying logos are just getting simpler and simpler

  • @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    I guess some designers needed to prove that Google needed them, or just had enough time for a vanity project.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    I‘m all for a return to a more 3D look and feel, skeuomorphism etc. But those just look… off.

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    They call the droid a bugdroid? Interesting name choice as a software bug normally isn’t a good thing.

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      For some reason I always thought the Android mascot’s name was “Andy”, but I can’t remember where I had heard that from.

      I definitely like Andy over bugdroid though…

  • @[email protected]
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    81 year ago

    From a design perspective, it’s awful. You don’t combine 2 similar but different fonts, with the same sizing and color, into one graphic. FFS it even has serifs AND sans serifs in the same bloody word.