Making Material Design

[googledesign]

Today at #io15 the #materialdesign team gave a couple talks about lessons learned from the first year of #materialdesign. For those of you who missed the session, you can still get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of #materialdesign. Learn more about the philosophy behind the system as well as first-hand accounts from a few of the designers on the team. 

[alvaroderamonmu]

Absolutely genius. Amazing that this was filmed seven years ago and is fully relevant still.

[nakulrao]

As somebody who is beginning to understand the idea behind this craft, I really admire the thought process and the initiative. A good user experience and a thoughtful UX just makes everything...worth loving. Thanks for the video.

[rbc]

One of the most exciting things about designing anything, from a UI, to game mechanics, to your software's code structure, to a wooden chair....is the sense of discovery. You think you have an idea of where you are going, but then new and amazing ideas and perspectives reveal themselves along the way.

[UXtalks]

Great to hear the designers themselves talking about this new visual framework and see the techniques they used to investigate some of its principles like observing how shadows are casted over real paper.
It's interesting how we, as designers, build these design languages by making the call to which principles to respect –realistic shadows, overlapping of sheets– and which to discard –buttons floating towards your finger when tapped instead of looking pressed, stretchable and animated sheets.

[AkbarZudane]

Somehow this is one of the best of Google. I really love this design.

[SimoneDePascalis]

Rewatched it after 2020 GSuite icon redesign. I'm legit nostalgic.

[Spicysauced]

This design made me switch from iOS. No joke.
Google, please keep on doing this. Dont change it ever.
This design with connection to reality is really really good. Not like Apples "in your face! make everything WHITE" design. 
This is 3D and at the same time 2D, kinda realistic and at the same time modern.
Flat and not flat. Depth and no depth.
And the animations .. You start the dialer, and the call button and numbers fade in when you hit the little keypad. I did that a few times just to enjoy the animation :D
All in all, its just great.
Also, its really easy for developers to use Matarial Design. Im actually thinking about developing an app myself. 
Until 4.4, Apple had the advantage in software design, IOS 7 was uglier then IOS 6 overall, but still.
But with 5.x and soon 6, you have the edge. 
10/10. Enjoying Google every day ^-^

[Patrick-pudi]

Crazy to hear these people talk about the complexities and nuance of this design language. Just goes to show that when passionate people work together, they can create something so beautifully intuitive. Something that makes ME wish I'd thought of it first

[kurororushirufuru]

A lot of these guys saying, "its a crap", doesn't appreciate this wonderful work. Some say, "dropshadow already exist on mac", doesn't matter if it's a mac or iOS' design, dropshadow is part of a modern design. Some complain about, "the music app sucks", maybe they still want to support older versions of Android, y'know, such animation APIs doesn't exist back there. Others notice these Google designers use an Apple product, they actually included an iOS style of material design in their guideline so what's the issue they shouldn't use an Apple product?

[owainjones]

Amazing how much time and work they put into something that most of us don't even think about.

[RyanSargent]

Shame noone showed this to the team that made the new emojis.

[rahman]

google is always balancing between smooth user experience and a perfect design...

[anticeon]

Imagine Windows 10 use material instead of Ironed design

[selections]

Even tho this video is 8 years old, I honestly like how Google was so creative on creating the icons for the apps, as an Android user since 4.4, I honestly need to say that this is one of the reasons I really like Android to say.

[kulyog]

Bethany Fong had clear vision about material design. She explained it perfectly.

[vsmedia]

OMG.... What am doing as a designer and what these guys are... Its really inspiring that every detail does matters for even a single button

[princelyh.glorious]

Stream of consciousness...

Apple has always been my favourite tech company because it understands design. (Design is not a veneer... it's not how it looks, it's how it works etc)

Google's Material Design - a new design language/philosophy/set of principles - is beautiful, coherent, and pushes software design forward. Finally, Google get design - and their latest software (and direction) are top of class right now...

[janitabrittz]

2019, and these principles are still relevant. Well done guys :)

[susmoys]

i always wondered how they made such good design. now i know. great! play store have these sick animations i got stumbled how they made it. the icon stretches out and the new page opens. its like a game animation. dont even look like i am actually clicking on a link and it loads and then comes. its so beautiful.