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Google Design Pisses Its Pants on Twitter/X

I almost hope it's AI slop and that there aren't any human designers there who think anything in this app has appropriate proportions or is aesthetically pleasing. But, alas, the XCancel mirror of the original tweet loses the animation showing the UI in motion.) ★

Google Design Pisses Its Pants on Twitter/X

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I almost hope it's AI slop and that there aren't any human designers there who think anything in this app has appropriate proportions or is aesthetically pleasing.

But, alas, the XCancel mirror of the original tweet loses the animation showing the UI in motion.) ★

A few years ago I'd have looked at this post and maybe leaned toward the idea that a precocious 8th grader somewhere hacked into the @GoogleDesign Twitter account and tried to pass off their little to-do...

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I almost hope it's AI slop and that there aren't any human designers there who think anything in this app has appropriate proportions or is aesthetically pleasing. But, alas, the XCancel mirror of the original tweet loses the animation showing the UI in motion.) ★ (Here's an XCancel link for the x.com averse.

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(Here's an XCancel link for the x.com averse. You can just change any x.com/ URL to xcancel.com/.

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