Apple Developer
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Materials | Apple Developer Documentation
A material is a visual effect that creates a sense of depth, layering, and hierarchy between foreground and background elements.
Apple Developer
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Apple Design Resources - Apple Developer
Design apps accurately and quickly using official Apple design templates, icon production templates, color guides, and more.
Videos
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Introducing Liquid Glass | Apple - YouTube
Design for spatial user interfaces - WWDC23 - Videos - Apple Developer
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Showcase: Learn how apps are integrating the new design and ...
Material Design
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Material Design
Build beautiful, usable products faster. Material Design is an adaptable system—backed by open-source code—that helps teams build high quality digital experiences.
Medium
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Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines vs Google’s Material Design Guidelines | by Shivaniy | Medium
September 1, 2024 - Material as a metaphor: Inspired by the study of paper and ink, the material surfaces and edges provide visual cues grounded in reality. Bold, graphic, intentional: Elements are deliberately placed on the screen, with a focus on color, imagery, large-scale typography, and intentional white space to create immersive designs. Motion provides meaning: Motion is used to focus attention and maintain continuity, helping users visualize the impact of their actions. ... Color: Apple advocates for the judicious use of color to communicate, impart vitality, and provide visual continuity.
Helena Stening
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Material Design v.s. iOS 11 — Helena Stening
Material design often uses cards in order to represent objects or group content together. Their guidelines are based on using qualities of objects in the physical world: objects or surfaces existing in a space together casting shadows and creating ...
Apple Developer
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Human Interface Guidelines | Apple Developer Documentation
The HIG contains guidance and best practices that can help you design a great experience for any Apple platform.
Quora
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What is Apple and Microsoft equivalent of Google's Material Design? - Quora
Answer (1 of 3): Microsoft and Apple do have their own guidelines as well. The structure is similar to Google´s guidelines, but there are also a lot of things, that you won´t find in the Material Guidelines and vice versa. Therefore it´s very helpful to know about all of the Guidelines and ...
Apple
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Apple introduces a delightful and elegant new software design - Apple
1 week ago - The new material, Liquid Glass, combines the optical qualities of glass with a fluidity only Apple can achieve, as it transforms depending on the content or context. Driven by the goal of bringing greater focus to content that’s instantly ...
AppsChopper
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Google Material Design vs Apple Human Interface ...
April 30, 2025 - Google’s Material Design offers the Android app development company to produce apps with the same icons over different platforms, enhancing user experience. It helps users to navigate smoothly throughout the app yet maintaining a clean user interface. Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) is a software development document that offers iOS development agency a set of recommendations.
Prototypr
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Google’s Material Design vs Apple’s Flat Design: Which is better? | by Promatics Technologies | Prototypr
April 17, 2017 - ... Google considers animation is something that enhances the user experience and gives life to other components. Material design uses different types of animations to express the type of material to interact with.
Telerik
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Is Apple’s Liquid Glass the Next Material Design?
October 3, 2025 - This new glassmorphic digital material has changed the way components look and feel on all its operating systems and devices. Because of how drastically the Apple UI has changed, is it reasonable to expect that designers and developers will have to start mirroring their app and website designs to fit?
GitHub
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GitHub - material-components/material-components-ios: [In maintenance mode] Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for iOS
[In maintenance mode] Modular and customizable Material Design UI components for iOS - material-components/material-components-ios
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The Verge
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Google says it’s dropping Material Design components on iOS in favor of Apple’s UIKit | The Verge
October 12, 2021 - The change was announced on Twitter by Jeff Verkoeyen, engineer lead for Google Design on Apple’s platforms. I recommend reading the full thread if you’re interested, but Verkoeyen says his team “shifted the open source Material components libraries for iOS into maintenance mode” earlier this year.
Reddit
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Apple and Material design specs : r/UXDesign
April 6, 2023 - One thing you should be familiar with when working on web are touch targets. Apple recommends 44px, while Google recommends 48px and so on. Way too much to wing it if the job requirement is a strong understanding of both systems. ... If you're designing for mobile then you must familiarize ...
Apple Developer
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Design - Apple Developer
Design apps with official templates for Figma and Sketch, color guides, and more. ... Find out how to bring the new material to your app.
Reddit
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r/UX_Design on Reddit: Material design for iOS?
July 23, 2023 -
Looking for design system advice...
My company has been using Material Design to build web apps for the past few years I've been working there. I'm a solo designer and have modified the existing MD design system to work with our branding.
We are now going to be building native mobile apps for the first time, and I wanted to get your opinion on what to do with our design system.
Do you guys typically build out completely separate design systems (with your company's branding applied) for iOS and Android? Our developers are familiar with MD, so it would be easier to stick with that, but I'm concerned if we build native mobile apps with MD, it won't look & feel like an iOS app.
Our user base are physicians and most of them use iPhones.
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If most of the users are from iPhone it better to design with native "apple human interface guideline" to achieve more adaptability of your designed app. User can easily understand & act. material design might be blocker for them. The design guidelines are completely different. From my experience what I can suggest: for long term gain keep your user 1st. They would love to see it in iOS native guidelines. You will get a good user retention on this. The only issue is you dev team has to adapt Go with hybrid framework (flutter/reactnative) for this. In this case you can design a custom guidelines of your own. This is good when you carering both android/iphone users Maintaing two individual guidelines will be really difficult after a certain period. Initially It might look easy. But more feature > more complexity. You can handle properly. Better to stick with what is best for user or custom one. ⚠️ Keep in mind that users are the real boss of your company. If they don't like something it will impact the business growth. Feel free to discuss this with your stakeholders too
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It depends on budget and resources. It’s obviously more expensive to maintain 2 distinct design systems. Will the app be totally native or can it be a hybrid native/web based? https://www.mobomo.com/2016/06/native-vs-hybrid-apps/?gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI-ozQ0YrShAMVS0RHAR2yLAdTEAAYAiAAEgKU3fD_BwE
Reddit
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r/iOSProgramming on Reddit: Material Design for iOS for Beginners
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I am coming over from Android development and wanted to make my existing Android app available on iOS. I want to keep the same design language but the benefits of native since my app works with deeper technologies like the camera. Any good videos, books or Udemy courses for making iOS apps with Material Design Components? Thanks!
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Unless the client specifically requests it, don't do Material. iOS users don't like it, and there is nothing wrong with having a slightly different UI in your apps to match the native aesthetic. It doesn't mean they have to look completely different, just not both strictly Android style or iOS style
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Don’t use a hamburger button. Those things don’t work due to navigating back button being present in the top leading corner.
Reddit
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r/UI_Design on Reddit: Why is Google Material regarded as the best design principle when iOS/Apple's flat design is known to be more user friendly?
January 24, 2022 -
Everytime I read about best design practices, Google Material always pops up. Things like: Wanna learn UI Design? Start with Google Material......
But what about Apple's flat design? Why isn't it regarded as the better design? iOS is more user friendly and more beautiful. I know beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, but I'm talking statistics here, iOS is well known to be the more pristine looking. Google Material just looks cheap.
Any thoughts UI Gurus?
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Is this a troll post? You've made unsubstantiated claims that appear primed to rile fans of both systems. Exactly whose opinions are you referencing when when you ask "Why is Google material regarded as the best design principle?" Exactly whose opinions are you referencing when when you ask "iOS/Apple's flat design is known to be more user friendly?" I apologize if I'm mistaken, but since you specifically wrote that you're "talking statistics here," please provide your statistics and I'll take back my accusation of trolling.
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Because Material is NOT regarded as the best. And because Apple’s is NOT better either.
AppleInsider
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Google dropping Material Design in iOS to make iPhone apps look more like they should | AppleInsider
October 12, 2021 - Google will begin phasing out its Material Design for iOS apps in favor of Apple's own proprietary UIKit, a change that could result in apps that feel more like they belong on iPhone.
Reddit
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r/UXDesign on Reddit: Does anyone use a corporate design system with both Apple HIG and Material UI?
October 5, 2024 -
I’ve used design systems that were based on Material and used on web and all mobile apps. I’m hearing that using Apple’s HIG components is a better solution for iOS apps for both users and developers. However, it seems like you’d be limited in how much you can customize fonts, colors, etc. Plus it seems like every time you want to update something, you have to manage two component libraries.
Is this the recommended way of building out components? Upsides/downsides? Thanks.
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I’ve worked on multi-platform native apps (not using cross platform tools like flutter or react) at a few different companies. Each app has been developed in the same way: Components like top and bottom navigation are native iOS or Android navigation elements, with changes to typography and colors to match the design system. The content and UI inside every screen, excluding top and bottom nav, are designed to be identical across platforms. Every UI component in the design system has versions developed natively for iOS, Android, and web with the goal of parity. Navigation behavior, animations, and elements like modals are platform native, for example iOS modals show black at the top.
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We use them as a barometer to prioritize custom components that better align with our brand and ux