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Thank you so much for the feedback! I will add some text to show in case of empty list. I agree the button (FAB) is difficult to find on large screens but it i

Thank you so much for the feedback! I will add some text to show in case of empty list. I agree the button (FAB) is difficult to find on large screens but it is part of the Material design guidelines (https://material.io/guidelines/components/buttons-floating-action-button.html https://material.io/guidelines/components/buttons-floating-a...). I will think of some other approach.

smt88 9y ago
Why is following Material guidelines important to you?
- miloszpp 9y ago
  My reasoning is that since it made it into the guidelines, some people believe that it's not a UX anti-pattern :)
  - smt88 9y ago
    Google isn't some all-knowing authority on UX/UI. In fact, their UI is pretty terrible for most applications. It's hard to tell what you can or can't click. There are hidden controls everywhere. You can decide to blindly follow standards or do some real user testing and see how well your UI works for people. Stand over someone's shoulder while they use it for the first time and see how quickly they figure it out. Do some A/B testing. For the record, the UX/UI community in general had a lot of negative reactions to Material when it was introduced: https://medium.com/tech-in-asia/material-design-why-the-floating-action-button-is-bad-ux-design-acd5b32c5ef https://medium.com/tech-in-asia/material-design-why-the-floa... https://medium.freecodecamp.com/material-design-and-the-mystery-meat-navigation-problem-65425fb5b52e https://medium.freecodecamp.com/material-design-and-the-myst... http://blog.usabilla.com/flat-design-going-far/ http://blog.usabilla.com/flat-design-going-far/ http://www.matthewmooredesign.com/almost-flat-design/ http://www.matthewmooredesign.com/almost-flat-design/
    - miloszpp 9y ago
      Thank you, it's really helpful. I have very little experience with UX so I decided to start by sticking to the guidelines. But what you are saying makes a lot of sense and I will definitely look into doing some tests with real users.

smt88 9y ago

Why is following Material guidelines important to you?

miloszpp 9y ago
My reasoning is that since it made it into the guidelines, some people believe that it's not a UX anti-pattern :)
- smt88 9y ago
  Google isn't some all-knowing authority on UX/UI. In fact, their UI is pretty terrible for most applications. It's hard to tell what you can or can't click. There are hidden controls everywhere. You can decide to blindly follow standards or do some real user testing and see how well your UI works for people. Stand over someone's shoulder while they use it for the first time and see how quickly they figure it out. Do some A/B testing. For the record, the UX/UI community in general had a lot of negative reactions to Material when it was introduced: https://medium.com/tech-in-asia/material-design-why-the-floating-action-button-is-bad-ux-design-acd5b32c5ef https://medium.com/tech-in-asia/material-design-why-the-floa... https://medium.freecodecamp.com/material-design-and-the-mystery-meat-navigation-problem-65425fb5b52e https://medium.freecodecamp.com/material-design-and-the-myst... http://blog.usabilla.com/flat-design-going-far/ http://blog.usabilla.com/flat-design-going-far/ http://www.matthewmooredesign.com/almost-flat-design/ http://www.matthewmooredesign.com/almost-flat-design/
  - miloszpp 9y ago
    Thank you, it's really helpful. I have very little experience with UX so I decided to start by sticking to the guidelines. But what you are saying makes a lot of sense and I will definitely look into doing some tests with real users.