G2

Verified User in Computer Hardware

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/27/2019

"Top Design System Library"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Material Gallery?

Google's Material Design System is one of the most well-known design systems alongside competitors like Fluent and HIGs (Human Interface Guidelines). Material Design, being a standard set of rules, guidelines, components, and rules for creating websites and apps, has set the standard for websites and web apps online. When I was a student, reading it for hours helped me understand user interface design deeply with clear guidelines. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Material Gallery?

Arguably, Google's Material Library is more for Android, while HIGs is made for Apple. Personally, I'm a fan of Apple products, so HIG Design System is something I'm more used to visually. However, Google Material is sequenced, categorized, and paced well, so that makes learning and consuming it easy. Another point is that following the Material Library guidelines may result in your app looking "Google-y," which has its pros and cons. Cons being that it might look like Google's apps without the Google brand, which would seem odd. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Material Gallery:

Google Material is definitely one of the best design systems on the web, although HIGs, Fluent, and many other design systems are also free to reference online. Material is well sequenced, paced, and categorized, so it's easy to understand. However, sometimes it may be hard to find what you're looking for. For example, when I can't remember the exact px of a button's height, it is not possible to CTRL + F "button height," because it's an image text. It'd be great if Material would make the image text coded or script instead. Other great design systems to check out are: Alibaba's Ant Design System (Used widely on Chinese websites), HIG Human Interface Guidelines, Fluent, IBM Design Language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Material Gallery solving and how is that benefiting you?

Google's Material Design system has been a free resource for designers in start-ups like myself to save time and not start from scratch to design a guideline or style guide. The time that the designers in Google took to craft and plan for the Design system is impressive, and this in turn saves thousands of designers time to design a style guide, drawing references and following standard design guidelines and keeping in mind accessibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.