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The first time I saw material design, I thought it's a cool concept. I liked it. I also liked applications built with this concept. At first, those apps looked.
by skazka16 11y ago
The first time I saw material design, I thought it's a cool concept. I liked it. I also liked applications built with this concept. At first, those apps looked...different. After several months, today, when I see anything designed with a material design idea behind it, I have a strange feeling. All the material applications/websites look like they were designed by the same designer. Imagine there are 10 websites and only one of them is designed with material concept. How hard would it be to find this 1 out of 10? It seems a fairly simple task to me. I'm not a designer, but I never had exactly the same feeling before (i.e. surfing through thousands of flat web sites). I'm not sure if I want to see thousands of material websites. Does anyone else experience the same?
- skuunk1 11y agoI think that's the point of material design. It's the design equivalent of egoless programming. You should not be able to tell who wrote/designed something if it is done properly.
- nadc 11y agoI think you've hit the nail on the head. They talk about how individuals with no colour theory can now pick out harmonious colours. [1] This solves an internal Google problem though, not a user problem. There's a thin line between consistency and monotony and at the minute Material Design seems to be on the wrong side of that line. [1] https://youtu.be/rrT6v5sOwJg?t=306 https://youtu.be/rrT6v5sOwJg?t=306
- pbowyer 11y agoIt's also hugely beneficial for Google if all apps/sites get sucked into looking the same, so their platform becomes a platform, rather than a gateway to individual companies. Beneficial for them, and dangerous for others I fear.
- skazka16 11y agoAgree. They are basically trying to "monopolize" the design.