Re:Don't make it "like Google"
by dosinga on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @08:03PM
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If you are a software engineer with no sense of design, do make it like Google. Material Design allows anybody to put something together that looks half decent, is somewhat consistent and familiar with users.
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Re:Don't make it "like Google"
by zeroCalories on Wednesday April 23, 2025 @08:08PM
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The irony is that engineers are too arrogant to use material, while good designers just use material.
The good designers, yes. I'm sure there are plenty of other designers who think their opinion is better than the likely thousands of person-years of UX research that the major OS vendors (combined) have invested into their interface guidelines.
I just think it looks ugly, and I don't want to create a product that I don't personally like. Totally open to accessibility and using existing frameworks but not Material.
Funny I like the MUI React widgets for applications that are used by people who use those applications all day for work. For consumer-oriented mobile they just seem to be meant for maximum feasible misunderstanding and then some.