I'm with the herd on this one: unless you're looking for a sort of "retro" feel, most designers are not reaching for Material Design.
Beer CSS – Build material design in record time
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Re: Beer CSS – Build material design in record time
#32Sorry, but I would never use something like this, it really isn't well put together.
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#33Material design looks pretty dated these days. I'm wondering why people would still be using it? Is it just a taste thing or something people have been working with for a long time?
I agree. I think it's a function of familiarity. People who interact daily with apps using Material Design get used to it and don't notice how odd it looks to everyone else.
Re: Beer CSS – Build material design in record time
#34For a CSS design site, this looks fairly bad to my eye. I'm not any kind of UX expert, it just looks clunky: - Lots of text seems slightly offset. It's not all centered within buttons etc. - The text also doesn't seem to quite line up with the icon on said buttons (it feels relatively a little too high) - Similarly the text within the little notification popups ("New") isn't centered and hits the top of the outline -…
> For a CSS design site, this looks fairly bad to my eye. I'm not any kind of UX expert, it just looks clunky:
Front page says "Build material design in record time", so it's on par with actual Material Design which is all that, and more. Here's a small thread I collected some time back: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1643607965935476737.html
Re: Beer CSS – Build material design in record time
#35I'm with the herd on this one: unless you're looking for a sort of "retro" feel, most designers are not reaching for Material Design.
What's your modern baseline?
Re: Beer CSS – Build material design in record time
#36Buttons (and their children) randomly change their border radius when clicked. This project looks as unappealing as it has a year ago
Re: Beer CSS – Build material design in record time
#37For a CSS design site, this looks fairly bad to my eye. I'm not any kind of UX expert, it just looks clunky: - Lots of text seems slightly offset. It's not all centered within buttons etc. - The text also doesn't seem to quite line up with the icon on said buttons (it feels relatively a little too high) - Similarly the text within the little notification popups ("New") isn't centered and hits the top of the outline -…
I only see a blank white page. I'd expect that people who are specifically trying to show me an interesting CSS library could make at least something show up on the page without JavaScript. As a matter of policy, I don't whitelist sites that give me neither a clear reason nor initial content.
Right, so it's some JS SPA thing as well (of course).
Out of interest, do you not often find this a problem these days? I feel like there'd be a lot of sites out there that are non-functional or literally do nothing without JS.
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#38The site is a terrible experience on mobile, not good for a first impression
Re: Beer CSS – Build material design in record time
#39Material design looks pretty dated these days. I'm wondering why people would still be using it? Is it just a taste thing or something people have been working with for a long time?
I always thought Material looked bad. It's the worst thing that survived the 2010s flatshit trend, IMO.
But it's familiar, so I can't really be that mad at the people who continue to use it. As often as Google makes things that break their own rules, and as much as Samsung deep-fries Material into a fine dust, people still know that the low-contrast pill-shaped thing is a button.
Has anything come along since Material that was aesthetically better and ergonomically better and equally well-supported across platforms?
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#40Am I the only one that dislikes using the element for icons? Isn't that semantically incorrect?