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Re:Show HN: Material Design for Bootstrap – Powerful and Fre... by nik736 on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @11:18AM (#12590237)

I don't understand why anyone wants to use MD by choice. I don't have an opinion about the web looking similar (has pros and cons) but what I know is that MD looks just not right and at times very weird. I understand that everyone has a different taste but, for example:

http://mdbootstrap.com/components/forms/ I can't imagine any designer let alone regular user liking the way these forms look.

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Re:Show HN: Material Design for Bootstrap – Powerful and Fre... by cyberferret on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @09:00PM (#12594653)

We recently redesigned a customer's website from an older, uglier custom format, to one that uses a Bootstrap Material style template (similar to the OP's).

User feedback was that the newer one was much easier to understand. Layout was somewhat the same, but we just used the Material specs to place and colour the buttons etc. It just made things more intuitive for non technical users.

I don't think I am a particular good front end designer, but I was able to get the screens to look reasonable while conforming to Material's design principles (note: some information blurred in these screenshots as it is live client data).

1 - https://flic.kr/p/MxrPbt 2 - https://flic.kr/p/MENUsv 3 - https://flic.kr/p/MxrPmi

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Re:Show HN: Material Design for Bootstrap – Powerful and Fre... by dchest on Saturday October 01, 2016 @06:40PM (#12620214)

A lot of websites that try to use Material Design look ugly, but yours look very nice: clean and easy to understand. Good job!

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Re:Show HN: Material Design for Bootstrap – Powerful and Fre... by edwinyzh on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @01:41PM (#12591430)

Same here. All Material Design webpages I've seen so far feel too "blur" to me - I'm not sure if "blur" is a correct wording, but what I mean is that, with MD, the buttons, sections, and so on, are no longer clear on my eyes...

Am I alone?

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Re:Show HN: Material Design for Bootstrap – Powerful and Fre... by eagsalazar2 on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @01:21PM (#12591255)

It is a bad example. They've made choices with the button placement, icon size and alignment, links below form that aren't not part of MD and I agree look terrible. There are other examples of MD that look great.

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Re:Show HN: Material Design for Bootstrap – Powerful and Fre... by jeffmould on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @02:11PM (#12591648)

Was going to make a similar comment. I don't think it is necessarily MD forms in general, but these examples leave a bad impression. The icons are not aligned and are improperly sized for the form.

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