Does 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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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
If you're going to design though, you should design with your own distinctive style. Google has attempted to suggest that Material should be a universal design pattern, but that's silly: It's pretty much Google's brand at this point, given their tendency to slap it on everything, including iOS, where it makes no sense.
And the weakness of Material as a design pattern or common language is that Google's own apps and websites don't bother to consistently apply it.
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#43Is there something wrong with my computer or did they really use a monospaced font on very ugly colors on the front page so it looks like shit?
Nope, same for me. I know design is subjective but I really do not like the look of this. It may sound hyperbolic but it genuinely hurts my eyes to look at this; those colour combinations are very garish.
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#44Buried 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…
I agree: while I use the Chrome tools for resizing, this is a lovely interface you could use to impress a client.
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#45I 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.
Design standards can be great, especially as pushback against what you mentioned. But MD is a horrible standard for everyone to be following.
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#46Maybe 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…
I don't get why on HN, every top voted comment in every submission is a negative criticism.
Middlebrow dismissal. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4693920
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#47I 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.
I don't think that dichotomy exists. I definitely feel that the entire web should not look like Android.
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#48Maybe 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…
I don't get why on HN, every top voted comment in every submission is a negative criticism.
On the other hand if one reads from the bottom of the page the calibre of comment leaves a lot to be desired.
Ergo, scroll half way down and start reading. Problem solved.
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#49Buried 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…
Emmet Re:View is an extension that gives you a "device wall" of your site (local or live) across all different viewports - very helpful!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/emmet-review/epejo...
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#50I wish the web would be designed with Swiss style, typography-heavy design though not sure how viable that'd be
See: Bloomberg's redesign last year or so.