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Discussion on: 5 Delightful Things about Material-UI

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Nayden Gochev

I am not saying Material UI is not good, but it just makes everything the same, it is good but it is the same.

It is similar to the fluent Microsoft design or I don't know how it was called before, some people liked it I hated it .. but at the end it is the same.

Human Interface Guidelines however are just guidelines and at the end many apps look amazing but in a different way. You do use iOS right, and not Android ? :) And you like the apps more right ? :) I am scared if more and more people start using Material UI on the web.. the web will become beautiful but boring :(

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AmberJ

Hey Nayden! I hear what you're saying. Aesthetic choices come and go. That's something I appreciate about the Material-UI components, because even though they have a Material appearance - it can easily be customized. Its the functionality of their components that really is exciting.

Thanks for chiming in!

Ps. Oh, I use android. :)

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Nayden Gochev

haha :) good one :)) especially the ps. ;)

I know that the fomponents for android can have a customized theme but not many people do that and I am not sure about the web as well ... for example material ui for angular is it easy customizable I will check ;) few years ago when everyone was using jqueryUI the jqueryUI had such an amazing themes and even some theme manager/editor but for material ui I dont think we are there yet

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Matei Adriel

First of all, i like how android looks more than ios

Second of all, i agree with the "web'll looks boring" part, thats why i decided to design my own components for my next side projects

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Nayden Gochev

Matei the look of the OS sure, but the look of the apps... they just.. I dont know something is just missing even on the google apps.

The best looking apps are not material ui apps.. the material ui apps is like the old grey theme for windows it is nice it is amazing but thats it.

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Matei Adriel

I guess it depends on personal preferance