I'd love to see a parody... twm design:
Material Design
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Re: Material Design
#22Does 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.
Google just made their Angular 2 Dart MD components available: https://github.com/dart-lang/angular2_components
These are the same components being used on production in the new AdWords UI, and I believe in the new Adsense UI as well (and others I can't recall right now).
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#23Buried in there is a tool for a quick view of any site across laptop, tablet and smartphone form factors: http://material.io/resizer/ 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 qu…
umm this is just showing a responsive page in iframes of various dimensions.. The smartphone one is especially bad with browser scrollbars throughout.
You can accomplish the same simply by resizing your browser, or achieve even better preview by using chrome's dev tools' device emulation feature.
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#24I wish the web would be designed with Swiss style, typography-heavy design though not sure how viable that'd be
Do you have a few links where I can read more about this design direction?
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#25So is material going flatter? Isn't that partly abandoning the paper-like material metaphor?
no paper and ink metaphor was referring to behavior not look
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#26I really hate that everything must now look the same. Especially since I think it looks and feels bad.
I think it's largely signaling that a product or site is receiving attention from its creator or owner rather than trying to make anything look nice or work well. Can't let your online storefront look like it's from 2008, even if it's more usable than newer designs and loads 10x as fast, because people will think it looks neglected and possibly abandoned and won't buy stuff from you.
Most people outside tech don't really care. I've built a couple of webshops at a previous company... fancy loses customers.
Material design is merely a set of guidelines, and can be used as a common language for actually designing an application or website. The "actually designing" is usually the missing part.
Noone should expect MD to substitute thoughtful design.
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#27Does 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.
There's a bunch of Polymer "Elements" that implement Material Design. All the "paper-" use MD.
https://elements.polymer-project.org/browse?package=paper-el...
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#28I wish the web would be designed with Swiss style, typography-heavy design though not sure how viable that'd be
Do you have a few links where I can read more about this design direction?
Not the parent, but here are some examples, with a brief description of the style: http://splashnology.com/article/swiss-style-in-modern-web-de...
Personally I find most sites that use Swiss Style impossible to navigate/use. They "look nice" (actually, quite amazing in my opinion) but functionality is #1 for most websites and I would never make a site purposefully using this style. Most of the time, there is just too much going on.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Typographic_Styl...
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#29I really hate that everything must now look the same. Especially since I think it looks and feels bad.
I have no problem with it. The alternative is having Bill from the marketing department making design decisions ("we need a big pink button in the top right that says AMAZING DEALS") and generally impossible to navigate web pages. I cam across a site on my phone yesterday that forced you to swipe left and right to read multiple screens of text of a news article. Fuck that.
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#30Does 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.