Too much monochrome in Lollipop?

[AZgl1500]

Does anyone else feel that Lollipop has gone too far with the monochrome styling of notifications and popups?

The other issue is the new incoming call toast. It's definitely better than taking over the screen, but everyone knows that to answer a call you hit green, and to reject you hit red. But we get no colours, instead the words "answer" and "dismiss" with monochrome icons. It takes close attention to pick the right one. Same with the alarm. Trying to read the difference between "dismiss" and "snooze" while in a blurry-eyed state without glasses on a fully dimmed screen while lying in bed is far from easy!

I just feel that graphic design aesthetics have overridden proper usability concerns in the mansion of Android development. Is this just me, or does anyone else agree? If so, how do you feed these concerns back to Google so they might take some notice?

Rick
Nexus 4, Lollipop 5.0

YES!

I hate the flat monochrome look.
Like you, w/o my glasses on, i can just barely recognize the damn phone, much less make any sense of what the different icons are for.

As for answering the phone, it better damn well stay with GREEN to answer, and RED to reject....
Piss on trying to read that incredibly small print. i go by color alone, not the text.

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[bjacks12]

Seriously? No one heard my complaints about flat design all the years I've been here?

Easy, they're just giving you a good ribbing(for your pleasure, of course).

 

[nickdalzell]

I never said lollipop looked like the UI I posted , as lollipop is NOT flat. I was addressing this throwback to early computing that flat design is doing and what I hope lollipop is undoing. Windows 8 reminds me of Windows 1.0 though

I love Material Design. Longed for 3D polish a long time after iOS 7 came out and Jelly Bean. Lollipop is as I said a hopeful first step to a return to skeuomorphism

FYI sarcasm doesn't really work on the Internet

 

[funkylogik]

Well it does to "normal" people mate JS

 

[mikedt]

<---rolls eyes...sarcastic.

 

[EarlyMon]

Exciting new Material Design wallpapers - https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/102898026333733818285/albums/6081914916274644193

As seen in http://phandroid.com/2014/12/30/675-lollipop-wallpapers-download/

The art style displayed on these wallpapers is reminiscent of Google through and through — clean lines and contours, flat topography and an explosion of color are all well-represented.

Because nothing looks better than sepia and cyan. /facepalm

 

[codesplice]

"flat topography"

You can tell it's flat because shadows.

 

[EarlyMon]

The material design spec says that the Z-axis components can only go 1 above the base - that's 4 so that's a violation.

Cool effect though. Despite the dorky colors.

 

[MLSS]

Happy New year everyone!