Google is turning up the blur effects on Android 17, but how do you feel about this change? Let us know in our latest open thread.
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This is a rather obvious statement, but you won’t find every single person in a group of millions agreeing with a decision, and this makes designing something as integral as an operating system’s UI rather tricky. Google has been pretty good at it in the past few decades — at least I haven’t met anyone who outright hates the look and feel of Android.
We’re currently in the Material 3 Expressive era, which sees the likes of Android 16 play with more colors and fluid animations while placing greater emphasis on personalization. I feel that it’s Google’s best work, and it looks splendid on modern Android phones. However, this is by no means the end of the road for the design langauge.
As the first images of Android 17 come trickling through, there’s one additional design decision that Google is seemingly pushing hard this year: it’s turning that blur dial all the way up.
