Android Is Getting Weird Again as iOS Gets More Boring

The best word to describe Google’s self-leaked Android UI is “funky.” According to a now-removed blog post, Android is getting a visual refresh in the form of a “Material 3 Expressive” design language, a bold, a little brash, and very in-your-face design with its odd shapes and massive fonts. Love it or hate it, at the very least we may finally experience a stint where Google and Apple’s smartphone interfaces aren’t carbon copies of each other. The folks at 9to5Google first spotted a blog post from Google published ahead of its annual Google I/O conference detailing the new Material 3 Expressive redesign. The Wayback Machine still has the text and header video, but the blog managed to grab shots of this new UI before Google pulled it down. Google describes this look as “the most-researched update to Google’s design system, ever” and further claims it will make it up to four times faster to spot key UI elements. You can be the judge of whether larger bubbles with bold text make it eas ... Read full article.