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How To Extend Material Design 3 For Flutter Apps
One of the skills you should pick up is how to look at the new design spec edition and see how it can be extended to push the design edge. Let me show you how we think through such things; using the introduction of Material You as an example.
Why Material Design 3(Material You)
After Material Design 2 came out in 2018, some trends came out in mobile and desktop to impact both color and navigation considerations. If you use an iOS device you already see one of those trends such as real colors and the putting the app UI first in that appbars and other navigation bars are not colored.
Also, adaptive navigation became a design industry best practice as evidenced by the articles on the world leader in research into design, Nielsen Norman Group(nn/g) website:
The Problem With Any Design Spec
The problem with any design spec when it meets both differences in visual design form and software implementations is that the design spec has to average out all the use…