Material Design
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Material Design
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#2Are these tools going to be part of Android Studio? I kind of wish they were.
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#3So is material going flatter? Isn't that partly abandoning the paper-like material metaphor?
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#4I wish the web would be designed with Swiss style, typography-heavy design though not sure how viable that'd be
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#5Maybe I'm missing something, but I just don't get MD.
* The name: What do a bunch of geometric, flat-looking, solid colors have anything to do with "materials." "Material Design" always makes me think the direct opposite: skeuomorphism.
* The look: It goes way past "clean" and "elegant" into "bland" and "childish." I don't want a bunch of tiny buttons with indecipherable icons and pastel colors. I want well-organized controls with obvious labeling and a consistent color scheme.
* The appeal: sites like this seem to be encouraging general usage, but then your site just looks like you ripped off Google's stylesheet. (And like I mentioned above, I don't know why you'd want to go for that look unless required.)
While I'm griping: it also drives me nuts that Google insists on forcing MD where it doesn't belong. They refuse to follow conventions on iOS so things like the navbar and the "current location" or "share icon" don't match any other app on the device.
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#6So is material going flatter? Isn't that partly abandoning the paper-like material metaphor?
Doesn’t seem so: https://material.google.com/material-design/whats-new.html. I think it’s just this new website ignores Material design and does its own weird thing.
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#7I really hate that everything must now look the same. Especially since I think it looks and feels bad.
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#8Does anyone know any open source implementations of Material Design? I've been using https://getmdl.io/ but I'd be interested if there are any other projects of similar or better quality.
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#9Does anyone know any open source implementations of Material Design? I've been using https://getmdl.io/ but I'd be interested if there are any other projects of similar or better quality.
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#10Buried in there is a tool for a quick view of any site across laptop, tablet and smartphone form factors:
I've never seen this tool before and don't know if it's new with this site, but it is amazing and I'll be using it a lot from now on!
Edit: Thanks for the references to the browser dev tools, which clearly are more appropriate for development - I intended rather more emphasis on the quick view part being the amazing thing, as in lining the three up side-by-side with a nice skeuomorphic ui, and being able to share a link that just works for demos to people not familiar with their browser's dev tools.