[isaacimagine]

Seems like this will be an unpopular opinion, but I like the design.

How appealing a design is is personal preference, and I think a lot of the elements advertised, say, squiggly sliders, show the flexibility of the system; it's not like all sliders will be squiggly, but it opens up the possibility while still working with the rest of the design language.

The emphasis on customization is important as well - a more flexible system means that you can customize things that look more closely to how you want them, whether this be bright and squiggly, or dark and slick.

Just my own two ¢. I'm not affiliated, fwiw.

[isaacimagine]

There will apparently be an in depth presentation on the new design language in about 11 hours, fwiw. Might answer some questions we all have: https://events.google.com/io/session/357e96f9-128b-4902-b63e...

[drusepth]

I suspect a nonzero amount of hate online is coming from iOS users, who've always seemed to prefer non-customizable, "curated" designs (e.g. historically being anti-widgets, anti-folders, anti-theming, etc) and not from actual Android users who tend to value customization and diverging from the "standard" interface.

Of course, some Android users are going to dislike the new design -- it is a design preference and it's _different_, after all!

I love the new design. There are a few rough edges (like the brightness bar!) but I assume it'll be polished over the multi-year roadmap they've given, or at least through each of the dev previews until the Pixel 6 drops.

[Lammy]

I like it, but I still miss Holo way more. Peak Android for me was 4.2.2 Jelly Bean before they removed the Phablet UI layouts. I had the Nexus-7-style layouts on a Galaxy NoteⅡ and don't think any phone I've owned since then has topped it interface-wise.

[izacus]

> Seems like this will be an unpopular opinion, but I like the design.

There seems to be a huge amount of positive feedback, both from media and Android users, so it's not an unpopular opinion at all. It seems to mostly be unpopular opinion between existing iOS users :)

[minusf]

I'm also an android user and i never liked material too much. come to think of it never liked too much any of the previous android designs either. it's not that material is bad, is just bland and doesn't work for me. although i find the floating "+" circles positively horrible.

[isaacimagine]

I posted this at a time when there were no other positive comments in the thread, so not the biggest sample size :)

[alt-enter]

I'm with you on that. Customization is important to me (one of the main reasons I use Android), and I'm eager to see how this turns out. I really appreciated the custom styling options added to Google Now Launcher and this feels like the next step.