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I personally like them and I think many people do. Nevertheless, I'm curious to what you do like. What would you like to see?

joekrill 6y ago
I think they've iterated on the design a bit over the years, but my primary criticism is that it can be hard to distinguish that an input is, in fact, an input. I think Google has since changed their design to have a filled background or border, which definitely helps - but this particular implementation doesn't seem to do that (except when the input is disabled, which sort of defeats the point). There's also a lot of problems around how the placeholders and labels work - particularly in distinguishing them from each other.
- vantagedesign 6y ago
  Fair point, I'll that that into account and see what I can do. Thanks for your feedback
- rozab 6y ago
  I think it strongly evokes a line on a paper form, which indicates a place where the user must fill out a field (and fits with the recurring paper metaphor). If I'd never used a computer before, I think I would figure this out based on the context clues. So while it may not fit current UI paradigms, it might be better? I applaud Material Design for attempting to move things forward in this way.
  - thefounder 6y ago
    The issue is that the computer screen is not a paper form. You can't just fill out forms wherever you see dotted lines/horizontal rules(hr tags). Unlike paper pages, most of the HTML pages are read only / not content editable.
    - WorldMaker 6y ago
      Yeah, my brief exploration with user feedback in a material style form of that sort returned of a lot expectations especially on HTML pages that the underlined things were "weird links" not editable form fields and they didn't know how to edit the content. Some of those were even Android users presumably seeing the same style of fields in their day-to-day apps. One said they hated it in Android apps too but had no way to control it.

joekrill 6y ago

I think they've iterated on the design a bit over the years, but my primary criticism is that it can be hard to distinguish that an input is, in fact, an input. I think Google has since changed their design to have a filled background or border, which definitely helps - but this particular implementation doesn't seem to do that (except when the input is disabled, which sort of defeats the point). There's also a lot of problems around how the placeholders and labels work - particularly in distinguishing them from each other.

vantagedesign 6y ago
Fair point, I'll that that into account and see what I can do. Thanks for your feedback
rozab 6y ago
I think it strongly evokes a line on a paper form, which indicates a place where the user must fill out a field (and fits with the recurring paper metaphor). If I'd never used a computer before, I think I would figure this out based on the context clues. So while it may not fit current UI paradigms, it might be better? I applaud Material Design for attempting to move things forward in this way.
- thefounder 6y ago
  The issue is that the computer screen is not a paper form. You can't just fill out forms wherever you see dotted lines/horizontal rules(hr tags). Unlike paper pages, most of the HTML pages are read only / not content editable.
  - WorldMaker 6y ago
    Yeah, my brief exploration with user feedback in a material style form of that sort returned of a lot expectations especially on HTML pages that the underlined things were "weird links" not editable form fields and they didn't know how to edit the content. Some of those were even Android users presumably seeing the same style of fields in their day-to-day apps. One said they hated it in Android apps too but had no way to control it.