Flat UI vs Material Design

Overview

Flat UI

Stacks107

Followers143

Votes4

GitHub Stars15.2K

Forks2.3K

Material Design

Stacks594

Followers890

Votes14

Flat UI vs Material Design: What are the differences?

Flat UI: Free Bootstrap Framework and Theme. Flat UI is a beautiful theme for Bootstrap. We have redesigned many of its components to look flat in every pixel; Material Design: Google's Material Design. Material Design is a unified system that combines theory, resources, and tools for crafting digital experiences.

Flat UI and Material Design can be primarily classified as "Front-End Frameworks" tools.

Flat UI is an open source tool with 14.5K GitHub stars and 2.46K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Flat UI's open source repository on GitHub.

Google, SkyQuest, and GEMServers are some of the popular companies that use Material Design, whereas Flat UI is used by Apexure, Leonis Holding, and SkyQuest. Material Design has a broader approval, being mentioned in 25 company stacks & 38 developers stacks; compared to Flat UI, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.

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Advice on Flat UI, Material Design

Ashish

Sr. UI Associate at Daffodil Software

Dec 29, 2020

Needs adviceon

Bootstrap

Material Design

Tailwind CSS

I am a bit confused when to choose Bootstrap vs Material Design or Tailwind CSS, and why? I mean, in which kind of projects we can work with bootstrap/Material/Tailwind CSS? If the design is made up on the grid, we prefer bootstrap, and if flat design, then material design. Similarly, when do we choose tailwind CSS?

Any suggestion would be appreciated?

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Comments

Raj

Jan 3, 2021

Review

Hi Ashish,

If you need minimal work to be done from your end and like most of the components / design available out of the box - go with Bootstrap. This is the oldest and has the widest adoption and a whole range of components built out by others.

If you like Material design, this is a good choice too. Please note that Bootstrap also has a Material theme, though it is not as native.

Both of these above frameworks are bulky and has more than what you may need.

If you like to build micro-components in a elegant way, TailwindCSS is the way to go.

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Ryan

Mar 11, 2021

Decided

Ant Design offers the most components with JS and CSS taken care of. They look clean, professional, and usable.

We paired this with Bulma for making the containers and structure reactive. Bulma (for react) make it easy to just add a section, container, and content and have it work on all platforms.

We also use Geist UI, though not recognized by Stack share, for its simple and modern feel. Highly recommend Geist if you want modern components for complicated UI's

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Detailed Comparison

Flat UI	Material Design
Flat UI is a beautiful theme for Bootstrap. We have redesigned many of its components to look flat in every pixel.	Material Design is a unified system that combines theory, resources, and tools for crafting digital experiences.
Bootstrap-based;Retina Ready Images and Icons;Custom form components;Sleek CSS3 effects;Easy configurable color scheme	-
Statistics
GitHub Stars 15.2K	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 2.3K	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 107	Stacks 594
Followers 143	Followers 890
Votes 4	Votes 14
Pros & Cons
Pros 1 Basic Flat design 1 Good for mockups and minimal UI design 1 CSS class naming conventions are similar to Bootstrap 1 Sass support Cons 1 Not for creative and modern UI design	Pros 5 They really set a new bar in design 4 An intuitive design 3 Simply, And Beautiful 2 Many great libraries 0 Composants Cons 2 Sometimes, it can hang the browser
Integrations
Bootstrap	No integrations available

What are some alternatives to Flat UI, Material Design?

Bootstrap

Bootstrap is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework for developing responsive, mobile first projects on the web.

Foundation

Foundation is the most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. You can quickly prototype and build sites or apps that work on any kind of device with Foundation, which includes layout constructs (like a fully responsive grid), elements and best practices.

Semantic UI

Semantic empowers designers and developers by creating a shared vocabulary for UI.

Materialize

A CSS Framework based on material design.

Material Design for Angular

Material Design is a specification for a unified system of visual, motion, and interaction design that adapts across different devices. Our goal is to deliver a lean, lightweight set of AngularJS-native UI elements that implement the material design system for use in Angular SPAs.

Material-UI

Material UI is a library of React UI components that implements Google's Material Design.

Blazor

Blazor is a .NET web framework that runs in any browser. You author Blazor apps using C#/Razor and HTML.

Quasar Framework

Build responsive Single Page Apps, SSR Apps, PWAs, Hybrid Mobile Apps and Electron Apps, all using the same codebase!, powered with Vue.

Nuxt.js

Nuxt.js presets all the configuration needed to make your development of a Vue.js application enjoyable. You can use Nuxt.js for SSR, SPA, Static Generated, PWA and more.

UIkIt

UIkit gives you a comprehensive collection of HTML, CSS, and JS components which is simple to use, easy to customize and extendable.

Related Comparisons

Flat UI is an open source tool with 14.5K GitHub stars and 2.46K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Flat UI's open source repository on GitHub.

Flat UI vs Material Design