Material 3 Expressive

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Google Drive gets its Material 3 Expressive redesign back

Last year Google started the rollout of the Material 3 Expressive redesign to Google Drive, bringing it in line, aesthetically, with other products and services. Then, for reasons best known to Google, the company then seemed to change its mind and pulled back some of the new look.

Now there has been another change of heart. Google Drive users are now seeing the reappearance of a visual tweak that had been yanked.

By Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson -

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