cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17574522

Over the course of 2024, Google Maps for Android has been working on a redesign that drops most fullscreen UIs in favor of sheets…

  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
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    4 months ago

    It’s amazing to me how much these companies spend on redesigns that add nothing but rounded corners one year, then sharp corners next year, and so on…

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      4 months ago

      A friend of mine worked for a FAANG company and he taught me that people get promoted for creating something “new” rather than improving something that already exists.

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      4 months ago

      I literally can’t even tell the difference between the first set of pictures other than the new one looks like it has an added advertisement on the center panel.