Published on: 2025-06-12 01:47:10
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google has begun rolling out Gmail’s Material 3 Expressive redesign via a server-side switch to some users. Design updates include more color usage, rounded cards, minor changes to the Compose button, and a new swipe animation design. Material 3 Expressive is the flavor of the season, even though the broader rollout for Android 16‘s core-system UX will happen later in the year. The design language has already debuted with Android 16 QPR1 beta, and we’
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TL;DR Material 3 Expressive is updating the look and feel of Google apps across Android, and is set to arrive later this year. Last week at I/O, Google offered devs a quick peek at how Meet is evolving for Material 3 Expressive. We’ve now managed to get a hands-on look at further Material changes coming to Meet. Google has just drawn the curtain back on Material 3 Expressive, and over the past few weeks now, we’ve been getting some of our first looks at how this updated design language will i
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Robert Triggs / Android Authority Every big UI update has its fans and detractors and Material 3 Expressive is no exception. I’ve seen so many contrasting takes online about Android’s incoming design language refresh, with some loving the focus on aesthetics and others decrying the lack of practical additions. While I find myself in neither camp, at least not at this early stage, I do have one big concern. Given Google’s history of design inconsistency across its various apps and products, it r
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Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Google has officially rolled out the first Developer Preview of Wear OS 6 based on Android 16. This early release introduces the new Material 3 Expressive design language to smartwatches, bringing dynamic theming, fluid animations, and improved scrolling. We spent some time exploring the preview. Here’s what’s new and what we’ve noticed so far. Curved buttons and new UI elements As previously announced, Wear OS 6 embraces Material 3 Expressive’s design cues,
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Adamya Sharma / Android Authority Google has officially rolled out the first Developer Preview of Wear OS 6 based on Android 16. This early release introduces the new Material 3 Expressive design language to smartwatches, bringing dynamic theming, fluid animations, and improved scrolling. We spent some time exploring the preview. Here’s what’s new and what we’ve noticed so far. Curved buttons and new UI elements As previously announced, Wear OS 6 embraces Material 3 Expressive’s design cues,
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google unveiled Android’s new Material 3 Expressive design yesterday, and it’s already available in the Android 16 QPR1 Beta 1 released today. This beta showcases Android’s UI overhaul with features like revamped Quick Settings, background blur, and springier animations, but Google apps still await their updates. Pixel users can experience these changes by joining the Android beta program, though this means skipping next month’s stable Android 16 relea
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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is testing Material 3 Expressive components in a beta version of its Files app. Changes include centrally placed, redesigned floating buttons, larger thumbnails, and a new progress bar design. These design features are not yet live and may change before public release in the stable branch of the app. Material 3 Expressive is going to be the flavor of the season, and we’ll see plenty of Google and third-party apps update to incorporate Android’
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-05 12:10:22
Robert Triggs / Android Authority During The Android Show, Google officially lifted the curtain on Material 3 Expressive, the next step in design aesthetics for Android 16. The new look is just a part of Google’s initiative to make both Android and Wear OS playful and visually engaging, and even invoke emotions while you use it. For context, the last big design change with Android was about four years ago with Android 12 and Material You. With Material 3 Expressive, it builds on the Material D
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-03 23:20:11
Material 3 Expressive is the most researched update to Google’s design system, ever. Here, Material researchers share the data behind the designs and new insights into users’ preference for emotion-driven UX. Material 3 Expressive was born out of research — not in the 41 shades of blue kind of way, which delegated design decisions to data, but in a collaborative inquiry spanning research, design, and engineering. Back in 2022, our research intern was studying user sentiment toward Material Desi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 00:00:32
Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), and, as in years past, many tech companies are marking the occasion with the announcement of new assistive features for their ecosystems. Apple got things rolling on Tuesday, and now Google is joining in on the parade. To start, the company has made TalkBack, Android's built-in screen reader, more useful. With the help of one of Google's Gemini models, TalkBack can now answer questions about images displayed on your phone, even they don't have
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Ryan Haines / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day with some new functionality for Expressive Captions, TalkBack, and more. TalkBack is gaining support for follow-up questions, letting users ask things like what color objects are. Chrome also gets some handy upgrades, like OCR for image-based PDF files. Google’s big developer conference is less than a week away at this point, with Google I/O 2025 kicking off next Tuesday, May 20. Some companies woul
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Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google’s preparing a handful of changes to the interface for its Drive Android app. The tweaks appear to follow Material 3 Expressive guidance, ahead of Google’s plans to widely embrace the look later this year. Google has already started making similar changes to its other Android apps, like Keep. Google’s got a hot new look for 2025, and we’re not just talking about that dreamy new smooth-rainbow G; this week the company jumped the gun on Google I/
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Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google and I have never quite seen eye to eye on design. Ever since Material Design debuted in 2014, I’ve been slowly falling out of love with Android’s default aesthetic — like watching a once-clean-cut friend develop an unhealthy obsession with novelty ties. I might be alone in this, but Google’s new Material 3 Expressive doubles down on almost everything that rubs me the wrong way. What do you think of Google's Material 3 Expressive design for Android? 446
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Supplied by Google TL;DR Google is silently rolling out new Material 3 Expressive design elements to the Pixel Watch. A Reddit user has noticed a new, display-hugging tile layout for the Google Calendar app. The changes seem to be a part of a server-side update. Although the Wear OS 6 release is still a few months away, Google seems to be quietly rolling out Material 3 Expressive elements to the Pixel Watch. The first signs of the new design are appearing in the Pixel Watch’s Calendar tiles,
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Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority Old vs new Quick Settings panel design in Android TL;DR Android 16 QPR1 beta is expected to debut the new Material 3 Expressive design language. The upcoming build is expected to include several new design changes, including the new Quick Settings panel, Clock customization, wallpaper effects, and more. Google officially unveiled Android’s new design direction — Material 3 Expressive — during The Android Show yesterday. However, the company disappointed by c
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A more personal, expressive phone experience Nearly four years ago, we brought our award-winning Material You design to billions of Android phones and tablets, making them feel more human, approachable and grounded in your needs. Material 3 Expressive builds on Material You, bringing even more customization options so you can truly express yourself. Material 3 Expressive feels even more fluid and introduces a system of more natural, springy animations meant to bring a moment of delight to ever
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A more personal, expressive phone experience Nearly four years ago, we brought our award-winning Material You design to billions of Android phones and tablets, making them feel more human, approachable and grounded in your needs. Material 3 Expressive builds on Material You, bringing even more customization options so you can truly express yourself. Material 3 Expressive feels even more fluid and introduces a system of more natural, springy animations meant to bring a moment of delight to ever
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 03:57:34
Google accidentally showed off its big Android design refresh last week, but now Material 3 Expressive is official. Google says the new interface will begin with Android OS, but it will eventually expand across the full Google app ecosystem, bringing a more lively vibe to Gmail, Google Photos, and more. Material 3 Expressive won't be entirely unfamiliar—it shares some basic design elements with the Material You system Google launched four years ago. Material 3 Expressive is a bolder take on the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 08:57:34
Google accidentally showed off its big Android design refresh last week, but now Material 3 Expressive is official. Google says the new interface will begin with Android OS, but it will eventually expand across the full Google app ecosystem, bringing a more lively vibe to Gmail, Google Photos, and more. Material 3 Expressive won't be entirely unfamiliar—it shares some basic design elements with the Material You system Google launched four years ago. Material 3 Expressive is a bolder take on the
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Google At The Android Show today, Google officially introduced Material 3 Expressive, the next evolution of Android’s design language, set to arrive with Android 16. This sweeping UI update is a significant step in Google’s ongoing effort to make Android and Wear OS more visually engaging, emotionally resonant, and interactive. With new motion physics, component updates, fresh color schemes, impactful fonts, and more, Material 3 Expressive is poised to reshape how Android feels and functions. H
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Well, the leaks were right. Google is updating the look of Android and Wear OS to make its mobile and wearable operating systems more visually expressive and animated. Google has dubbed its new design system Material 3 Expressive, and plans to introduce it when Android 16 and Wear OS 6 launch later this year. Material 3 Expressive builds on the Material You design changes Google made with the introduction of Android 12 by adding "more natural, springy animations," a greater sense of depth, upda
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I think we can all agree that our smartphone software—iOS and Android—has become stale. The systems are functional but boring, which they kind of have to be for billions of collective users to know how to use them without needing to pull out a manual every five seconds. But the design pendulum—for Android, at least—is finally swinging away from digital minimalism and toward a louder and more graphic design-y user interface. Announced today ahead of next week’s annual Google I/O developer confer
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-12 12:00:00
Google I/O is on May 20, but the annual developer conference will be so jam-packed with announcements that Google is opening the valve to release some news early. Today, during a virtual event dubbed The Android Show, the company showed off several features coming to the Android 16, starting with a fresh redesign. Here's everything new coming to Google's mobile operating system. Some of these features will arrive first on Pixel phones later this summer—presumably Google's Pixel 10 series—but mo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-23 16:57:00
Ahead of its planned announcement this month, Google apparently accidentally published a blog post on Tuesday with details about the thinking behind the development of Material 3 Expressive, its open-source design system. The post shared research behind the design of the interface, as first reported by 9to5Google, which shared the now-deleted post saved in the Wayback Machine. The thought process behind the company's "expressive design" involved making the user interface easier to use and less
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-24 07:57:01
Ahead of its planned announcement this month, Google apparently accidentally published a blog post on Tuesday with details about the thinking behind the development of Material 3 Expressive, its open-source design system. The post shared research behind the design of the interface, as first reported by 9to5Google, which shared the now-deleted post saved in the Wayback Machine. The thought process behind the company's "expressive design" involved making the user interface easier to use and less
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-24 12:30:27
Stephen Schenck / Android Authority TL;DR Google is updating its Clock with some of the boldest Material 3 Expressive changes we’ve seen so far. The updated app plays with fonts, as well as new UI elements. An alarm can now be dismissed using a button instead of the old slider. As we wait for the announcement of Google’s new Material 3 Expressive system at Google I/O, I’m seeing more and more leaks of the new look. So far we’ve seen the new settings app, the Google account section as well as
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 12:58:17
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Google just accidentally revealed its next big Android redesign: Material 3 Expressive. In a now-deleted blog post spotted by 9to5Google, the company describes the change as the “most researched” update yet, with the goal of making its interface more appealing and easier to use. You can find an archived version of the deleted webpage on the Wayback
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 12:11:49
Google will unveil a new version of its Android design language at its upcoming Google I/O developer conference, according to an event schedule posted to its website as well as an accidentally published Google blog post. The I/O session title hints at significant changes in store for Android’s design system, which will evolve from “Material 3” to “Material Design 3 Expressive.” The leaked blog post indicates that Google’s updated design will focus on creating interfaces that “connect with people
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-25 16:48:44
TL;DR Google prematurely published a blog about Material 3 Expressive. The new UI design is described as “the most-researched update to Google’s design system, ever.” Studies found that users were able to spot key UI elements four times faster than before. It’s almost time for Google I/O 2025, which is scheduled to start on May 20. During this developer conference, it’s expected that we’ll hear about Android 16 for TV, Gemini integration with Android Auto and Android Automotive, Android XR, a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-29 08:44:15
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority TL;DR Google is working on a new ‘expressive’ version of Material Design, which is expected to be revealed at Google I/O 2025 in the coming weeks. We’ve spotted and activated this new expressive theme in the Google Services settings page within Android settings. This joins the growing list of apps getting ready to adopt the upcoming Material 3 Expressive theme after its launch. Over the months, we’ve spotted plenty of clues indicating that Google is working
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