I don't think this is a fault of Material Design, but a fault of some of the early apps implementing it. IMO the designs that catch my eye on this site are the

I don't think this is a fault of Material Design, but a fault of some of the early apps implementing it. IMO the designs that catch my eye on this site are the ones with full-bleed photos and content taking precedence over UI. More dynamic. Sidenote, but I can't wait to play with Android's Palette API that lets you extract colors from an image to use in your interface: http://www.willowtreeapps.com/blog/palette-the-new-api-for-android/ http://www.willowtreeapps.com/blog/palette-the-new-api-for-a...