Material Design Color Tool
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Material Design Color Tool
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#2Imo Googles new material design is not impressive. It does however help developers who are not good designers build a cookie cutter app.
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#3Imo Googles new material design is not impressive. It does however help developers who are not good designers build a cookie cutter app.
And it makes much of the internet look like it belongs to Google.
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#4Imo Googles new material design is not impressive. It does however help developers who are not good designers build a cookie cutter app.
It's most impressive trait is that it is a holistic approach to UI and design. There aren't many "systems" out there for that.
However I agree, there isn't much new and impressive in it and the evangelistic design chatter it created, much like the Flat Design trend, gets very stale and can stifle good conversation on the topic.
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#5Imo Googles new material design is not impressive. It does however help developers who are not good designers build a cookie cutter app.
You can look at it in much the same way that the early versions of Windows enabled programmers to build applications that looked exactly alike.
In much the same vein, Material's "paper" concepts are designed to minimise confusion for lay users - i.e. "What does clicking the '+' button do?". Once you standardise the symbols and appearance of certain widgets, it removes the "have to think about it" barrier. You could argue that EVERYONE who uses a Windows computer knows what the [x] on the top right corner of every window does.
And like Windows, I think you will eventually see developers modify and extend Material to make applications stand apart from each other while maintaining some sort of consistency of the UI.
But like windows, you will eventually get to the stage that developers corrupt simple things like checkboxes to operate in non logical ways (e.g. as radio buttons), or you end up with a screen where every conceivable square millimetre of the window is a 'hot point' that does something when you touch/click on it! (I/m looking at you Excel etc.)
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#6I'm surprised it took them so long to do this. Someone else made one ages ago at https://www.materialpalette.com/
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#7Imo Googles new material design is not impressive. It does however help developers who are not good designers build a cookie cutter app.
And it makes much of the internet look like it belongs to Google.
Not sure why your comment gets downvoted. It's a fair point, especially since non-geek people don't have a clue who produces the apps they have installed on their smartphone.
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#9Uhm interesting. Seems like a good tool but either I'm using it wrong or it's very weird that it doesn't seem to provide an option for the accent color.
here's some other similar tools that I collected over time
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#10Imo Googles new material design is not impressive. It does however help developers who are not good designers build a cookie cutter app.
I don't think it's as much a design for designers but a design for users. It's a guideline that all apps can follow so that the user doesn't have to relearn every single app and is more likely to know where to find stuff. As far as aesthetics go it's not the greatest yes, but it doesn't have to be. Having a good looking foundation on which to base your app is great. If you really want it can always be innovated. There's plenty of nice changes you can find in different apps and it's always evolving.