The author recently came across a page from Google Design about their Material 3 UI language, which they believe is a few years old. The page caught their attention after Google bragged about a new to-do app on Twitter. One of the features that stood out to the author was the replacement of the traditional I-beam cursor for text selection with a circle in desktop browsers. The author thinks this change makes precise character selection more difficult and is a poor design choice. The author is surprised that the UI design team at Google would make such a change. The page also includes a paragraph that discusses the benefits of expressive design, including a 32% increase in subculture perception and a 34% boost in modernity. The author finds it humorous that the designers are assigning precise percentages to subjective qualities like rebelliousness and modernity. The author questions the sincerity of the paragraph, wondering if it is a prank, but believes it is genuine. The author's skepticism is further reinforced by the fact that the designers are using data to support their claims of increased rebelliousness and modernity. The author notes that there is a video of the Google Design team putting this research together, which they find worth watching.