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Personal preference but does anyone else not like material design concepts?

by ben_jones 10y ago

izacus 10y ago
I'm sure somewhere in the wide world of 6+ billion people there are individuals who agree with you :)
gallonofmilk 10y ago
me. I think some of the animations are a gimmick and not a fan.
pbreit 10y ago
I initially really liked material because it seemed nice and clean but the animations have gotten out of hand, IMO, particularly when used on desktop. Is there a non/less-animated version?
- freestockoption 10y ago
  If they do it in CSS, I bet you can remove the animations by setting the animationduration property to 0 seconds. Or if you want to aggravate users, override it so that each animation takes 10seconds. :)
stronglikedan 10y ago
As with anything, I think material design can be done right or wrong. I don't like completely flat designs, and I don't like actionable objects that aren't immediately apparent as actionable. I do, however, like the overall look, as long as the functionality is done right. One of my peeves is that it's sometimes hard to create business dashboards with high information density, since a lot of the material frameworks love their padding out of the box.
cscharenberg 10y ago
I dislike it a lot, and I'm otherwise mostly unopinionated about design. I think it has poor usability. It takes me a long time to process the odd placement of things like a "New/Create" button and the animations annoy me and feel distracting.
ungzd 10y ago
I think it's mostly ok on Android (except floating buttons), but bad on websites (even Google's own). And that mobile-like dumbification when websites look like my monitor is giant handset and most features and controls are removed as "unneeded for typical handset tapper" (most pages related to account management on Google, new Google photos with especially primitive controls). I prefer previous design of Android (4.0-4.2) with slightly retrofuturistic aesthetics.

Personal preference but does anyone else not like material design concepts?

izacus 10y ago

I'm sure somewhere in the wide world of 6+ billion people there are individuals who agree with you :)

gallonofmilk 10y ago

me. I think some of the animations are a gimmick and not a fan.

pbreit 10y ago

I initially really liked material because it seemed nice and clean but the animations have gotten out of hand, IMO, particularly when used on desktop. Is there a non/less-animated version?

freestockoption 10y ago
If they do it in CSS, I bet you can remove the animations by setting the animationduration property to 0 seconds. Or if you want to aggravate users, override it so that each animation takes 10seconds. :)

stronglikedan 10y ago

As with anything, I think material design can be done right or wrong. I don't like completely flat designs, and I don't like actionable objects that aren't immediately apparent as actionable. I do, however, like the overall look, as long as the functionality is done right. One of my peeves is that it's sometimes hard to create business dashboards with high information density, since a lot of the material frameworks love their padding out of the box.

cscharenberg 10y ago

I dislike it a lot, and I'm otherwise mostly unopinionated about design. I think it has poor usability. It takes me a long time to process the odd placement of things like a "New/Create" button and the animations annoy me and feel distracting.

ungzd 10y ago

I think it's mostly ok on Android (except floating buttons), but bad on websites (even Google's own). And that mobile-like dumbification when websites look like my monitor is giant handset and most features and controls are removed as "unneeded for typical handset tapper" (most pages related to account management on Google, new Google photos with especially primitive controls). I prefer previous design of Android (4.0-4.2) with slightly retrofuturistic aesthetics.