{
  "id": 893188,
  "title": "Google’s ‘Material 3’ Design Write-Up Is 93.3 Percent Embarrassing",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/14/googles-material-3-design-write-up-is-93-3-percent-embarrassing",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-14T16:33:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daring Fireball",
    "slug": "daring-fireball",
    "url": "https://design.google/library/expressive-material-design-google-research"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Google's Material 3 design write-up has earned a 93.3% embarrassment rating, according to a recent article. The UI language features a desktop cursor change to a circle during text selection, which seems fun but hampers precise character selection. The design team appears to have taken a spoof-like approach, as a paragraph claims a 32% increase in subculture perception, a 34% boost in modernity, and a 30% rise in rebelliousness after implementing expressive designs. However, the percentages assigned to \"rebelliousness,\" \"modernity,\" and \"subculture perception\" are particularly eyebrow-raising. A video of the Google Design team conducting this research can be found for those interested in watching.",
  "summary": "This page from Google Design on their “Material 3” UI language came to my attention after my snarky post about the ungainly new to-do app they bizarrely bragged about on Twitter/X this week. I don’t think this “Material 3” page is new — I think it’s a few years old — but I’d never seen it before. First, it’s crazy that (in desktop browsers with a mouse cursor) they change the I-beam cursor for…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}