What Are Material Design and Angular Material
Explore the fundamentals of Material Design, Google's design language inspired by paper and ink, emphasizing usability across devices. Learn about Angular Material, the Angular framework's implementation of these principles, featuring UI components, themes, icons, and customization to streamline app development and ensure consistent, high-performance user interfaces.
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Material Design is a design language that Google developed in 2014. Google states that its new design language is based on paper and ink. The creators of Material Design explained their goal in the following way:
“We challenged ourselves to create a visual language for our users that synthesizes the classic principles of good design with the innovation and possibility of technology and science.”
They further explained their goals as follows:
Develop a single underlying system that allows for a unified experience across platforms and device sizes.
Mobile precepts are fundamental, but touch, voice, mouse, and keyboard are all first-class input methods.
Principles of Material Design
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