Bye Bye Material Design
Considering Material Design for your next project? Please, think again.
What the design guidelines like Material Design (MDG hereafter) has tried to achieve was first to serve the interests of google, which it was created for and by. Then, and consequently, it was to create a sort of web-literacy for the end-consumers of WWW. This web-literacy means basically creating habits of usage for people that consume basic every day information and go around in different platforms meanwhile, without continuously consuming and producing data.
The World Wide Web is a giant jungle. Everything is just a noise factor in an infinitesimal cosmos, just as is in the nature itself.
Let’s first deconstruct why Material UI is not a good fit for most applications, well at least for the rest of the 21st century.