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So "Material Design" is "Flat Design" with shadows? I'm not sure I can quite get used to this particular theme at all. The colors are pretty gaudy, the main ac

by nwh 12y ago

So "Material Design" is "Flat Design" with shadows? I'm not sure I can quite get used to this particular theme at all. The colors are pretty gaudy, the main action buttons (brown and purple) particularly are almost unreadable to me. I couldn't find the input boxes at all even though they had a header, they just parse as horizontal rules rather than something I can click on an add text. I respect the effort that has gone into creating this, but on a fundamental level I don't feel this is a good step in interface design.

stephenjwatkins 12y ago
After looking through Google's own material design guidelines (http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introducti...), I find them much more pleasing than this bootstrap theme. When it comes to material design, it seems that context and execution details will play a big role in delivering an experience that looks and feels right.
- FezVrasta 12y ago
  My project is just a 1:1 conversion from Polymer Paper project to Bootstrap. It's still in early developement but I'm sure it will become much better in future :)
  - higherpurpose 12y ago
    It doesn't feel that way, though. Your colors for example seem significantly "darker".
    - riffraff 12y ago
      agreed the colors seem to have higher saturation in the bootstrap version
  - bsimpson 12y ago
    The most important aspect of Material is the layered animations. This library is missing them.
- deleted 12y ago
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goldfeld 12y ago
The Google stuff looks eerily like Metro to me, but perhaps flat design with strict guidelines and good principles converge into similar looking aesthetics. I just find "material design" obnoxious, pathological cargo-culting and can't bring myself to elocute it, except maybe if I'm referring to someone designing synthetic leather.
- Kudos 12y ago
  The flatness isn't the key point of Material Design, the interactions are.
dmix 12y ago
Thats what I thought until I tried Android L...looks flat + shadows when you look at screenshots. But I was wrong. It's about layers and movement after interactions. You have to experience it with animations, sliding down notification menus, and tab-switching between apps. It feels like an very smooth remake of the Android 4 redesign, that flows cleanly between panels and screens. The flat/shadowy UI elements are secondary IMO to the layering effects that have been added. Something bootstrap themes can't really capture.
pron 12y ago
> So "Material Design" is "Flat Design" with shadows? ... and bright colors, yeah. But it's really just a return to early 90s GUI design (flat, high-contrast, shadows): http://files.vforum.vn/2013/T08/img/diendanbaclieu-98580-turbo-pascal-60-screenshot.gif http://files.vforum.vn/2013/T08/img/diendanbaclieu-98580-tur...

by nwh 12y ago

stephenjwatkins 12y ago

After looking through Google's own material design guidelines (http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introduction.html http://www.google.com/design/spec/material-design/introducti...), I find them much more pleasing than this bootstrap theme. When it comes to material design, it seems that context and execution details will play a big role in delivering an experience that looks and feels right.

FezVrasta 12y ago
My project is just a 1:1 conversion from Polymer Paper project to Bootstrap. It's still in early developement but I'm sure it will become much better in future :)
- higherpurpose 12y ago
  It doesn't feel that way, though. Your colors for example seem significantly "darker".
  - riffraff 12y ago
    agreed the colors seem to have higher saturation in the bootstrap version
- bsimpson 12y ago
  The most important aspect of Material is the layered animations. This library is missing them.
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goldfeld 12y ago

The Google stuff looks eerily like Metro to me, but perhaps flat design with strict guidelines and good principles converge into similar looking aesthetics. I just find "material design" obnoxious, pathological cargo-culting and can't bring myself to elocute it, except maybe if I'm referring to someone designing synthetic leather.

Kudos 12y ago
The flatness isn't the key point of Material Design, the interactions are.

dmix 12y ago

Thats what I thought until I tried Android L...looks flat + shadows when you look at screenshots. But I was wrong. It's about layers and movement after interactions. You have to experience it with animations, sliding down notification menus, and tab-switching between apps. It feels like an very smooth remake of the Android 4 redesign, that flows cleanly between panels and screens. The flat/shadowy UI elements are secondary IMO to the layering effects that have been added. Something bootstrap themes can't really capture.

pron 12y ago

> So "Material Design" is "Flat Design" with shadows? ... and bright colors, yeah. But it's really just a return to early 90s GUI design (flat, high-contrast, shadows): http://files.vforum.vn/2013/T08/img/diendanbaclieu-98580-turbo-pascal-60-screenshot.gif http://files.vforum.vn/2013/T08/img/diendanbaclieu-98580-tur...