I was checking this forum and for some reason no one is talking about material design , while major mobile applications and tech giants are embracing it. What do you think about it? Or people at this forum are slightly behind the edge of web design?? No offence, but for some reason i am really missing some thoughts on material design, which is currently trending big time.... Anyone?
Ah yes another way to bloat pages, and Googles's latest attempt to create its own standards. Having survived the Multi-"standards" battles of the past, I will stick to following widely supported standards and non-bloated approach. They are not doing anything I cannot do myself with a lot of excess baggage.
I am going to disagree with you @COBOLdinosaur. You probably felt the same as I did reading the intro. If you had read further (presumption here that you stopped early on), you'd have found this is not a dippy "new" method of coding, such as Bootstrap, Less, etc. It is, instead, a codification of user interface best (maybe debatable on some points) practices and related graphic design suggestions. I found it a notable rehash that brought together in an organized structure all the things that developers who have been around a while already have in their libraries. it does add, or even emphasize, methods aimed at phones and pads, but everything is useful to the web site designer as well as the application writer. To the OP, @Happster, that "trending" in this case is a null value word used in place of "ooh, shiny". No put-down implied; rather that your historical perspective is short. I do appreciate your bringing it to my attention, and it is bookmarked for my online library. cheers, gary
Generally it would be a strange day if someone did not disagree with me. I might have been a little too agressive, but anything with Googles name on it cannot be trusted. Google does evil no matter how much they claim otherwise. If Google is offering something free that does not further extend their spying capabilities then I must have gotten lost in a universe where Microsoft code is bug free out of the box and never needs to be patched. Cd&
I tried to understand it, but first off their website about it being an inaccessible mess I had to override the styling on to even use wasn't exactly and encouraging start. It's supposed to be about usability but the ignorant dumbasses who made the page about it think that #777777 on #F9F9F9 in a utterly useless 13px gooftard webfont is good web design? Much less the cyan on the same grey and white on cyan? It's /FAIL/ hard before I was even able to read the page explaining it... Which once I override the style to something usable REEKS top to bottom of artsy fartsy bull and marketing school doubletalk. The moment I see things like "rationalized space", "tactile reality" and "immerse the user in experience" I've got a pretty good feeling someone is trying to blow smoke up my ass. It's just more "presentation before anything else" bullshit that is the WORST of pre-4 Strict 1990's thinking... I suspect the people behind it are "designers" who in reality don't know the first damned thing about UX, UI design, much less accessibility. Just like steaming pile of halfwit manure known HTML 5 with it's undoing the past decade and a half of progress, when people call this "the future" I go "Really? Looks like 1997 to me!" --- so when you say "slightly behind the edge", well... Let's just say I find it to be the exact opposite. Though much like HTML 5, "Web 2.0", "Big Data" and "Rich Media" it almost feels by design to be nothing more than a sick buzzword with ZERO actual substance, research or reality behind it. The type of nube-bait that the people who get their IT information from the pages of Forbes are DUMB ENOUGH to buy into; which again taking IT advice from the pages of Forbes is like taking financial advice from the pages of Popular Mechanics. "Sophisticated investors" end up giving millions to some bullshit artist named "Moller". Remember, 90%+ of the time something is hot and trendy, it's usually marketing jackass drivel with no real substance behind it. See the idiotic halfwit steaming dung-heaps like jQueery, Bootcrap, Turdpress, HTML 5 as a markup specification... Most of which are used either out of ignorance, apathy, or just plain wishful thinking; the resulting sites being bloated, slow inaccessible train wrecks of how NOT to build a website if you care about visitors actually doing what they came to your site for.
Okay so Deathshadow liked it for what it is; nonsense that will be easy for us to target for rants. Cd&