The bugdroid is now in 3D lol

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    1 year ago

    So we got away from the 3D style just to go back to it?

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      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

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      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.

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    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

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    1 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

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      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.

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    1 year ago

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

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    1 year ago

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

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

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

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      1 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…

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    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.