Features of Material Design

Material design is loved by designers all around the globe for the features it provides. By using the guidelines, tools, and open-source components provided by Material design designers can build professionally designed products in lesser time. Some of the most noticeable Material design features are:

• UI design: In Material design, material guidelines provide the best practices and user interface design. Within the guidelines, you’ll find components which are the building blocks that makes the product usable and functional. Material design using usability and platform guidance makes sure that the application/website/software product works fine for all users, regardless of platform they are using.
• Gallery: Gallery is a collaboration tool provided by Material design that helps you organize comments and iterations. Gallery provides you features like uploading your designs to Gallery to so that you can share and collaborate with your team.
• Inspect Mode: In Material design, you can use Inspect mode for the developer documentation and links to Material components to create pixel-perfect UI. Documentation helps you gain more insights and tick all the check boxes for the perfect user interface.
• Simplify your workflow: Material design also provides the resources and tools that can help you simplify your workflow. For example, Theme Editor provided by Material design is a branded, simple library that helps you build beautiful user interface.
• Guidance: In material design, each component page includes guidance on how the components should be used by the designer, it also provides interaction pattern and design specs. Material design gives the designer all the information needed to ensure that the user interface is designed with lesser if not no flaws.
• Open-sourced: Material design is open-sourced. Therefore, it has a large community of designers and developers continuously making material design better. Since Material design is open-sourced, it is free to use. Open-source code is available for iOS, Android, web, and Flutter to help you start building your ideas in no time.

In UI/UX design, we often come across the term Material design, hear professional UI/UX designers talk about Material design, and think it is some fancy word only for designers with years and years of experience. In this article, we will try to explain what Material design is in simpler terms along with the needs and features of Material design.

So, let’s start with what is Material Design.