I feel the same way - especially with Google Drive. It takes a good 2 or 3 seconds to get a response from the UI when right-clicking. Also, it takes 4-5 seconds for Drive to realize when I'm dropping files or folders. Not sure if these issues are new or specific to Material per say, though.

4-5 seconds on your machine? Check for a button usually next to the power button on the CPU labeled “turbo” and give it a click. Might help.

I feel the same, and have the impression that Material Design is bloated and opinionated (not in a good way). I actually liked the presentation of its concepts, design language, style guide, etc. but not a fan of the technical implementation. Just one user's opinion..

Material is a design language. There are many different implementations of it (for the web at least)

Yes! I find that button clicks feel slow because (it appears that) the action does not start until the ripple animation completes.

I don't know which material library you are using, but literally the exact opposite of that is spelled out explicitly in the material design documents.

Actions shouldn't wait on animations ever.

It could be just the perceived time in my head.

I remember seeing studies about progress bar lines can make the user perceive that progress is happening faster.

Either way, it’s a deterrent for me.

This is funny.

I have the feeling mostly Google employees are running around telling the world how slow their pages are.

I feel the same way, most of the actions on the 'world cup' feed/info (when you search for world cup) is slower than it needs to be.

The new Flights is infuriating. The fade-in on the source/destination results in the incorrect airport if you start typing too quickly.

what designs do you consider fast?

hacker news aesthetic

The thing is you can have a simple aesthetic and have it look nice. Not that this looks bad, but I mean, it can suit a product and stay performant, easy to maintain for designers, very little cognitive overhead to work with the design system, etc.

Sometimes I feel like people lean on a lush and complex design system to draw eyes and attention away from how thin their product/data/whatever is. Welp, this is boring. Let's slap some lipstick on it.

minimalist, like craigslist