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Learning Material Design

You're reading from   Learning Material Design Master Material Design and create beautiful, animated interfaces for mobile and web applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2015
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ISBN-13 9781785289811
Length 186 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Nadir Belhaj Nadir Belhaj
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Kyle Mew Kyle Mew
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Building material web apps and pages is, in many ways, far easier than mobile devices. A great deal of the work is done for us. Provided we are happy to accept out-of-the-box solutions, material web UIs can be assembled in minutes. Frameworks such as MDL and Materialize are very well documented and very easy to become familiar with quickly. Many frameworks can work together, allowing us to select the features we want the most.

Spending the time to master a more sophisticated tool such as polymer is very often worth the effort, as the level of customization that the framework can provide will open up a world of possibilities.

Material design is ultimately a visual language and should transcend individual tools and platforms. It is the principles regarding proportion, light, color, and motion and not which HTML tag we use or which library we download that make an interface a material one or otherwise. Material Design websites and apps are becoming more and more abundant, and as we shall...

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