{"id":25036,"date":"2025-09-16T14:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/25036\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T14:06:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T14:06:06","slug":"survey-shows-android-16s-expressive-redesign-is-a-big-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/25036\/","title":{"rendered":"Survey shows Android 16&#8217;s Expressive redesign is a big hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google launched the stable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/android-16-features-3484159\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android 16<\/a> update back in June, but we had to wait a few months for the promised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/google-material-3-expressive-features-changes-availability-supported-devices-3556392\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Material 3 Expressive<\/a> redesign to appear. Fortunately, this visual overhaul landed in early September, giving us a fresh coat of paint.<\/p>\n<p>We recently asked what you thought of this visual redesign. Now that the dust has settled and you\u2019ve had time to explore the update, here\u2019s how you answered that question.<\/p>\n<p>How do you like the Material 3 Expressive look?<\/p>\n<p>Over 3,000 votes were tallied in this survey, and ~63% of respondents said they loved Android 16\u2019s Material 3 Expressive visual redesign. In other words, close to two-thirds of polled readers loved this new direction.<\/p>\n<p>Reader charliedcarlsen praised the customizable quick setting tiles, which allows you to resize these buttons:<\/p>\n<p>Personally I love it because it looks better in my opinion and I can customize the size of my quick action buttons to not take up 4 pages and all be on one<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, user dja said they liked the redesign but didn\u2019t love it:<\/p>\n<p>Solid like. It\u2019s an overall positive change except for IOS style status icons. Can\u2019t say I love it, though. It\u2019s just better.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow reader Nicholas Vettese\u00a0also praised the visual overhaul:<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, it is much better than I thought it was going to be. The pics posted over the last few months did not do it any justice, IMO. Very pleased with it. The only thing I wish Google would do, is make it OS wide, like Apple does. Google needs to have standards that make the OS look cohesive.<\/p>\n<p>About 27.9% of polled readers said they thought this change was okay. Meanwhile, just 8.86% of respondents said they hated Android 16\u2019s visual redesign.<\/p>\n<p>There was no shortage of readers who lamented this redesign, such as user b.nordgren.e:<\/p>\n<p>I find it to be extremely underwhelming\u2026 And maybe it\u2019s coz I\u2019m from Denmark, and alot of pixel features aren\u2019t available here\u2026 Can\u2019t wait to get my hands on another phone<\/p>\n<p>This sentiment was echoed by reader aauth:<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re losing the \u2018simple\u2019 design. Now everything is way more bulky and takes more space (have you seen the Gmail notifications? Instead of having the sender\u2019s icon, we now have the Gmail icon and the sender\u2019s icon that almost overlaps with the mail content, it\u2019s too much!) for nothing interesting in return. I hate it.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, roughly 90% of polled readers thought Google\u2019s Material 3 Expressive redesign was okay to great. Only about one in ten hated this change. So we can definitely chalk this up as a win for Google.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google launched the stable Android 16 update back in June, but we had to wait a few months&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[7907,61,60,10439,202,13740,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-25036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-android-16","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-material-3-expressive","12":"tag-mobile","13":"tag-survey-results","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}