Google has leaked details for its own new material 3 expressive design language.
The software giant will hold his next Big Google I/O 2025 event later this month, where a daring new material 3 expressive onion is unveiled on top of Android 16.
Although Google has not been dirty to give a few tips about the new design language, it probably didn’t intend to go as far as the net.
Google’s large material 3 Expressive Lek
Google seems to have posted a blog post with the material 3 Expressive user interface in error. We know this was a mistake, because it quickly got the post.
Of course nothing escapes the notification of the internet, and a version of the blog post has been saved for us relaxing inspection. 9to5Google also succeeded in taking the images that kept this first message (see below).
The post goes to the extensive research behind Google’s Material 3 Expressive UI, which apparently started with the simple examination of a trainee in 2022:
“Why did all these apps look like this? So boring? Was there no room to call the feeling?”
Google then repeated its way to material 3 expressively, using 46 separate research studies and more than 18,000 participants, using measures such as EYE tracking, experiments and good old -fashioned focus groups.
Google via 9to5Google
What to expect from material 3 Expressive
Google calls the resulting system “both beautiful and very usable”, and it is built around the common sense goal to “make important actions stand out and to group together as elements.”
Google grew about the feeling, Google chose “to surpass existing standards for tap target, color contrast and other important aspects that can make interfaces easier for all people”.
A core component is a new floating toolbar at the bottom of Google Apps, which seems to be on top of the rest of the app instead of underneath. Again, it seems to be employed to clearly emphasize the most important onion element.
Another example of material 3 Expressive in action is the new Gmail app, which now has a considerably larger and more prominent shipping button, which is now right above the keyboard.
In essence, Google seems to have created its latest onion design language by a meticulous process to ask people how they think about it. It sounds shockingly simple, but the results promise to be intriguing.
