Hello all Did anyone design website using Google design(https://design.google.com) framework: if yes, can they please share their experience and challenges in doing the same?
Last I knew Google design is NOT a "framework", it's just a collection of articles and guidelines to interface design, such as "Material Design". It is basically Google's feeble attempt at doing something akin to NNGroup, without bothering to do actual usability research to back up any of their claims. While Material design has some very good ideas (I've incorporated SOME of it into my own site) much of it, like the ENTIRE "animations" section is utter and complete rubbish on a website, and while somewhat usable on applications for Android can also start to get annoying. The goofy slow animations and the bloated rubbish scripttardery needed to pull off most of them (as MOST of it CSS3 really isn't up to handling yet) are a waste of programming time, waste of bandwidth, and if anything hamper usability on desktop/notebook displays. Take the whole "responsive interaction" section: https://www.google.com/design/spec/animation/responsive-interaction.html Which honestly wastes time on "gee ain't it neat" bullshit that is the OPPOSITE of what the word "responsive" means to my mind. If there's time to even show that I did something like click on an item, that's time wasted on not actually doing anything! I'm far more impressed when I click or tap on something if the action I chose starts NOW, not after some goofy animation as annoying as clippy or the stupid "search" dog from "bob" that wormed it's way into XP. Apart from the animation side, "material design" is simply an attempt to bring clarity back to flat design -- a counter-culture artsy movement that is in fact based in zero research into usability and often confused users through something called "False simplicity". I find it truly fascinating how lazy "flat" design looking less advanced than a XEROX Star or Alto has become considered hot, trendy and futuristic. There was a pretty good article on NNGroup about flat vs. the newer "flat plus" or "flat 2.0" recently... https://www.nngroup.com/articles/flat-design/ They really hit it on the head, the key is to use it in moderation -- in that same way I say that if it violates ACTUAL usability guidelines (like the WCAG) then whoever is flapping their gums is full of ****, and should be ignored... Though their pointing out the "harsh shadows" of Win95's design leaves me kneejerking into "they only had 16 colors to work with ***holes!"... there was little wrong with the design that leveraging modern colour depths couldn't fix, which ends up, well.... looking an awful lot like Material Design's use of shadows. ... but really your question about it as a framework? That's news to me since, well... it isn't. (anyone out there feel free to correct me with a link to an actual framework since, well... there isn't one) NOT that frameworks are generally worth using on websites unless you are utterly and completely ignorant of how to use HTML, CSS or JavaScript properly. Hence my own article on the topic: http://www.cutcodedown.com/article/HTML_CSS_and_JS_frameworks