The UI for Fenix is dated. Some things need a little bit of love and others just don’t make sense at all, like when you paste a URL, you can’t see the URL or the Paste and Paste & Go options because the system pop up gets in the way.
Material Design and by extension Android moved away from pop ups and toasts and adopted elements like bottom sheets.
The custom share sheet is a nuisance and there’s not even a way to get to the native share sheet.
Firefox for Android works, but it doesn’t look or feel like a modern browser that was designed for modern Android.
So being that Android design has evolved so much since Fenix last got a lick of paint, I’m wondering, has anyone heard of anything in the works? Seen any commits or mockups? Screenshots? A mention on Matrix or the mailing lists?
Material design sucks, it makes everything look same and look like Google, I really do not like apps loose their brand design. Yes, I also love how Firefox looks and do not consider its UI dated.
Material Design was awesome, IMO. Really cool haptics, clean fonts, simple recognizable shapes, a UI that had style but didn’t get in the way.
Material You otoh… Oh boy. An insanely wide font, rounded corners and excessive whitespace galore so even tablets feel like 4" phones again, everything has the same color and expression and just looks the same. It’s the least design a design could be. Like they fired everyone but one intern who then just gave up.
I’m exactly with you on everything you said.
I like the concept of a unified look between apps. IMO Google hit the right spot in design. Apps should always look familiar and easy to use based on your experiences with previous apps, something which is only possible through a unified design like Material You.
Material design itself is not that bad. Usually devs are not designers to make something beatifull, but using MD guidelines they could make simple, but good design. The problem is many apps allready had good design and switching for unified look they loose it, no brand, no name, no individuality. Imaging Spotify goes MD. Or Firefox. They will look mostly same, as other music players or other browsers.
I honestly don’t remember any app that actually lost their brand or individuality. People complain that MD makes app all look the same, but the only apps that actually implement MD are the ones that don’t have a very strong UX/UI Design in the first place. Spotify, Firefox, Meta Apps and such are never actually going to implement Material Design itself, at most they are going to read the guidelines and go “yeah, that seems fair” and implement their own solutions based on Google’s idea.