You mean how they heavily researched their latest redesign of Android? https://design.google/library/expressive-material-design-goo...

> M3 Expressive designs were overwhelmingly rated higher for attributes such as “energetic,” “emotive,” “positive vibe,” “creative,” “playful,” and “friendly.”

Heavy research indeed

I can't tell if you're joking. M3 Expressive is godawful and throws away so many hard-won lessons in UX R&D.

I spent some time navigating through the linked page.

I don't doubt designers spent a lot of time researching it. It still reads like an incredible amount of carefully crafted bullshit.

The more the design of things "evolve", the more I appreciate designs that simply don't.

Well to be fair their research confirmed that half of 55+ year-olds didn't like the new design

Funny, someone else mentioned in another reply that I may be too young to remember something from like 25 years ago.

I'm a Schrodinger's old man.