Google has announced the release of the Material Design Lite: What does this mean to web design

Зображення до статті Google has announced the release of the Material Design Lite: What does this mean to web design
Зображення до статті Google has announced the release of the Material Design Lite: What does this mean to web design

Material Design Lite is a simplified version of Material Design, which was presented by Google on I/O 2014. She changed many Google products, including Google Drive and Android OS. Even the main Google search page has absorbed Material Design items.

One of the main obstacles to the widespread implementation of the principles of Material Design, in addition to Google products, was competing styles. There were several attempts by the community to arrange the Material Design and, for example, Bootstrap; Material Design Lite is an attempt to ensure the implementation of Google approved.

🚀 Material Design can replace many parts bootstrap. However, it is not intended to fully meet everything that Bootstrap offers. Instead, the Material Design Lite aims to implement the components defined in the specification of Material Design. This allows him to give the most complete and accurate solution.

  • 📌 Material Design Lite is a small (about 27Kb gzipped) library of components for use on web pages and web applications.
  • 📌 MDL includes a library of MD components, which includes conventional UI items, such as boxes, text boxes and button.
  • 📌 MDL also includes five templates: blog, Android.com leather, instrument panel, web page with rich text and page of the article.
🧩 Summary: MDL is a way that Google thinks that most websites have to be built. However, MDL is characterized by the fact that it is not just a frameworks, but a framework that prefers a specific design approach.
🧠 Own considerations: Although MDL offers a holistic visual style, it can be too branded for use outside Google products. Introducing it as a whole, which is a great force of MDL, most of the time does not make sense.