[HillaryBriss]

i always thought that it looked a bit childish, was not innovative, was not fully developed as a vision and was not particularly well-explained. it was like, from its very announcement, they were trying to imitate Apple, but not doing it very well.

and i can't help but wonder if these are the reasons why the new GMail UI doesn't work well for this article's reviewer: the GMail app team doesn't really have a clear design inspiration to work from either.

i never liked "Material Design" as a name either. they might as well have called it "stuff design" because, you know, it's designed to look like "stuff."