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I don't understand why anyone wants to use MD by choice. I don't have an opinion about the web looking similar (has pros and cons) but what I know is that MD lo

by nik736 10y ago

I don't understand why anyone wants to use MD by choice. I don't have an opinion about the web looking similar (has pros and cons) but what I know is that MD looks just not right and at times very weird. I understand that everyone has a different taste but, for example: http://mdbootstrap.com/components/forms/ http://mdbootstrap.com/components/forms/ I can't imagine any designer let alone regular user liking the way these forms look.

eagsalazar2 10y ago
It is a bad example. They've made choices with the button placement, icon size and alignment, links below form that aren't not part of MD and I agree look terrible. There are other examples of MD that look great.
- jeffmould 10y ago
  Was going to make a similar comment. I don't think it is necessarily MD forms in general, but these examples leave a bad impression. The icons are not aligned and are improperly sized for the form.
edwinyzh 10y ago
Same here. All Material Design webpages I've seen so far feel too "blur" to me - I'm not sure if "blur" is a correct wording, but what I mean is that, with MD, the buttons, sections, and so on, are no longer clear on my eyes... Am I alone?
cyberferret 10y ago
We recently redesigned a customer's website from an older, uglier custom format, to one that uses a Bootstrap Material style template (similar to the OP's). User feedback was that the newer one was much easier to understand. Layout was somewhat the same, but we just used the Material specs to place and colour the buttons etc. It just made things more intuitive for non technical users. I don't think I am a particular good front end designer, but I was able to get the screens to look reasonable while conforming to Material's design principles (note: some information blurred in these screenshots as it is live client data). 1 - https://flic.kr/p/MxrPbt https://flic.kr/p/MxrPbt 2 - https://flic.kr/p/MENUsv https://flic.kr/p/MENUsv 3 - https://flic.kr/p/MxrPmi https://flic.kr/p/MxrPmi
- dchest 10y ago
  A lot of websites that try to use Material Design look ugly, but yours look very nice: clean and easy to understand. Good job!

by nik736 10y ago

eagsalazar2 10y ago

It is a bad example. They've made choices with the button placement, icon size and alignment, links below form that aren't not part of MD and I agree look terrible. There are other examples of MD that look great.

jeffmould 10y ago
Was going to make a similar comment. I don't think it is necessarily MD forms in general, but these examples leave a bad impression. The icons are not aligned and are improperly sized for the form.

edwinyzh 10y ago

Same here. All Material Design webpages I've seen so far feel too "blur" to me - I'm not sure if "blur" is a correct wording, but what I mean is that, with MD, the buttons, sections, and so on, are no longer clear on my eyes... Am I alone?

cyberferret 10y ago

We recently redesigned a customer's website from an older, uglier custom format, to one that uses a Bootstrap Material style template (similar to the OP's). User feedback was that the newer one was much easier to understand. Layout was somewhat the same, but we just used the Material specs to place and colour the buttons etc. It just made things more intuitive for non technical users. I don't think I am a particular good front end designer, but I was able to get the screens to look reasonable while conforming to Material's design principles (note: some information blurred in these screenshots as it is live client data). 1 - https://flic.kr/p/MxrPbt https://flic.kr/p/MxrPbt 2 - https://flic.kr/p/MENUsv https://flic.kr/p/MENUsv 3 - https://flic.kr/p/MxrPmi https://flic.kr/p/MxrPmi

dchest 10y ago
A lot of websites that try to use Material Design look ugly, but yours look very nice: clean and easy to understand. Good job!