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Am I the only one who thinks Material Design and its derivatives is just plain ugly? If I see a website created with this style, I press Ctrl+W close to speed o

by elcct 10y ago

Am I the only one who thinks Material Design and its derivatives is just plain ugly? If I see a website created with this style, I press Ctrl+W close to speed of light.

hitgeek 10y ago
I want to like MD because there are some great tool kits out there, but the animations come off as unnecessary, and often result in slowness and flicker on first loads from my experience.
sapeien 10y ago
It probably makes sense in Google's own ecosystem of apps, but as an aesthetic style it seems to be intentionally bland and tasteless.
- andybak 10y ago
  I think you can defend your use of the word 'bland' here but 'tasteless'? That seems a little overblown.
  - Spivak 10y ago
    I mean, they they are synonyms after all ;)
    - andybak 10y ago
      Ah. I guess I was reading 'tasteless' as implying that you had to lack taste yourself to like it rather than 'this thing has no flavour in itself'. Hmmmmmm....
adnanh 10y ago
Nope, not the only one :-)
andybak 10y ago
My opinion is somewhere in between neutral and "I quite like it". I think I'm beginning to feel rather numbed to it and would like to see a people add their own fresh twist - but I very much like the overall aesthetic approach in it's various forms (as long as it doesn't sacrifice affordance[0] at the altar of flatness) [0] https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-glossary-of-human-computer-interaction/affordances https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-gloss...
Fifer82 10y ago
Grotesque, yet my designer friend says it is amazing. Marmite it seems.
ciokan 10y ago
* quite the paradox writing this on HN isn't it? I think we browse looking for the content not the design. Google cloud? Angular.io? android.com? stamplay.com?
wishinghand 10y ago
What about it makes it ugly? I'm curious where the visual dissonance is for you in a set of guidelines that generally plays to the masses.
ryanSrich 10y ago
No you're definitely not the only one. Material design is hideous.
breatheoften 10y ago
Huge number of sites in material ui style are built using super broken widget libraries to boot -- nothing is as frustrating as a form that can't be completed due to ui broken ness ...
d0vs 10y ago
It's not so much ugly as it is unusable, there's just way too much whitespace.
andrethegiant 10y ago
My thoughts exactly! Glad I'm not the only one.

by elcct 10y ago

Am I the only one who thinks Material Design and its derivatives is just plain ugly? If I see a website created with this style, I press Ctrl+W close to speed of light.

hitgeek 10y ago

I want to like MD because there are some great tool kits out there, but the animations come off as unnecessary, and often result in slowness and flicker on first loads from my experience.

sapeien 10y ago

It probably makes sense in Google's own ecosystem of apps, but as an aesthetic style it seems to be intentionally bland and tasteless.

andybak 10y ago
I think you can defend your use of the word 'bland' here but 'tasteless'? That seems a little overblown.
- Spivak 10y ago
  I mean, they they are synonyms after all ;)
  - andybak 10y ago
    Ah. I guess I was reading 'tasteless' as implying that you had to lack taste yourself to like it rather than 'this thing has no flavour in itself'. Hmmmmmm....

adnanh 10y ago

Nope, not the only one :-)

andybak 10y ago

My opinion is somewhere in between neutral and "I quite like it". I think I'm beginning to feel rather numbed to it and would like to see a people add their own fresh twist - but I very much like the overall aesthetic approach in it's various forms (as long as it doesn't sacrifice affordance[0] at the altar of flatness) [0] https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-glossary-of-human-computer-interaction/affordances https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-gloss...

Fifer82 10y ago

Grotesque, yet my designer friend says it is amazing. Marmite it seems.

ciokan 10y ago

* quite the paradox writing this on HN isn't it? I think we browse looking for the content not the design. Google cloud? Angular.io? android.com? stamplay.com?

wishinghand 10y ago

What about it makes it ugly? I'm curious where the visual dissonance is for you in a set of guidelines that generally plays to the masses.

ryanSrich 10y ago

No you're definitely not the only one. Material design is hideous.

breatheoften 10y ago

Huge number of sites in material ui style are built using super broken widget libraries to boot -- nothing is as frustrating as a form that can't be completed due to ui broken ness ...

d0vs 10y ago

It's not so much ugly as it is unusable, there's just way too much whitespace.

andrethegiant 10y ago

My thoughts exactly! Glad I'm not the only one.