Google Testing Material Design Overhaul for Mobile Web Search: Report
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By NDTV Correspondent | Updated: 27 October 2014 19:10 IST
Google
is reportedly testing a Material Design overhaul for mobile Web search,
and the refreshed design has rolled out to some Android users.
According
to Android Police, an account of Amazon's Mechanical Turk large-scale
testing system is displaying a Material Design version of Google Search
on mobile devices. Participants of the Project Endor testing group are
asked to visit a mockup
of the Google Search page that includes "few canned searches and a ton
of new user interface elements and animations" similar to Google's
Material Design UI seen on recently overhauled apps.
The report
includes that the Material Design mobile Web search mockup is almost
entirely non-functional and is more of an interactive animation. Even
the search bar doesn't activate the keyboard for typing, it notes. The
link is said to be compatible with Nexus 5 and Samsung Galaxy S5
devices, but may require Mechanical Turk access.
The team at
Android Police has also
published
a video of the overhauled mobile Web search page mockup. The team notes
the overhauled interface has rolled out to some users.
As
yet it's not clear that what all visual changes will make to the actual
Google Search app's Material Design update, but we could expect some of
these elements at least.
Earlier this month, the search giant had
started
rolling out the final version of Google Play Store 5.0 app with the
Material Design update to Android users.The most notable change
is the more vivid palette of colours, and a flatter look that's more
characteristic of the Material Design philosophy. It features reworked
top bars that merge the section name (for example - Movies, Games and
others) with the category tabs like Top Releases, New Releases, Home and
others. All the Google Play sections namely Apps, Games, Movies, Books,
and Newsstand are also seen with the new colour palette combinations
that are brighter and more vivid than the current version.
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