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This is not a well written arricle. They mixes up material design with corporate memphis, which is not necessarily related, they can exist independently.
Their actual problem with google's ux appears only in this paragraph:
No examples, no reasoning, no good counter examples how it should be done, nothing. I'm not super familiar with google's web ux as I only use search and youtube ocasionally. They write here about android, but no android screenshots in the article. So is this about web ux only? Or anything google? The author couldn't even figure out what is their problem, this article sounds like "old man yells at cloud"
Okay this article is dog shit but Google Drive has absolutely awful search and is missing so many basic features even for things like finding out where a file is so I'm not defending Google there, the author makes a bad critique but it's a thing worth critiquing.
Subjectively, material design in its newest iteration is just also ugly as sin too, android 8 - android 10 was peak android, get these fucking pastels and overly large buttons off my phone and bring back the white/blue simplicity of yesteryear gosh darn it.
Gmail on mobile is pretty horrendous as well.
Me: "Hey Google, can you pull up the emails with links to the concert tickets I purchased a few months back?"
Google: "Here is every correspondence you've had with the ticket seller smashed into a single email with only the latest one visible"
"But I purchased two tickets separately that came in different emails, how do I just get to those?"
"🤷♂️"
Email in general is hell. It's meant to be individual letters but has now become the most unholy form of IM.
The simplest most ridiculous omission - Use the same signature as desktop for all mails.