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

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.deEnglish
    43·
    2 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…

    • triptrapper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      152·
      2 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.

      • evo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        26·
        2 months ago

        Bullshit. You are just regurgitating the same tired crap that’s been repeated on the Internet for years.

        • Drusas@kbin.run
          51·
          2 months ago

          It’s repeated because it’s true. This is very common in the industry.

        • ShepherdPieEnglish
          41·
          2 months ago

          I work at a FAANG adjacent company and it’s exactly the same thing here. I believe it 100%

    • cass80@programming.devEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      It’s busy work to justify a lot of positions. Think how many people are needed even for a minor change like that in an organization as large and bloated as google

    • ShepherdPieEnglish
      4·
      2 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.