A Look Back at 2017(III) – Top 8 Mobile APP Design Trend

Mobile APP design trend has undergone many changes in 2017. Artificial Intelligence, Chat Interface, Responsive Design, Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) keep designers constantly confronted with new challenges.

Research shows that users spend an average of 158 minutes per day on smartphones and tablets, 127 minutes of which is consumed in various APPs. It’s an indisputable fact that the development of mobile APP is rapid. As we continue to absorb new things and master the new trend, we also need to confirm whether these App UI design trends have been verified. The following are the most influential trends for mobile App in 2017:

1. Card View

As mobile devices become more and more important in the Internet, how to make the boundaries of the interface between the mobile and the desktop more ambiguous and the user experience more traceless are the problems that the designers urgently need to solve. Card view is a good solution to this problem.

As a carrier of interactive information, the card provides fast and relevant information in a condensed form. Beautifully designed card view can quickly capture the user’s eye, fully adapt to the responsive web and has high readability.

Organizing and arranging content flexibly on a smaller screen is invaluable. The card provides an all-in-one solution for text, images and video across multiple media content. So far, App Store, Facebook, Google and Twitter have been completed the iterative update of the card design, I believe this trend will remain strong in 2018.

2. Micro Interaction

From the beginning of 2016, micro-interaction has been a hot topic. And in this review of 2017, we still can not avoid the topic of micro-interaction.

In the mobile app, micro-interaction presented on the small screen plays a crucial role in user experience and interface. For the user experience, micro-interaction provides users with intuitive and user-friendly feedback and can convey some subtle state and a sense of anticipation.

The reason why micro-interaction works are because it raises the original desire of people to always want more information. Users can instantly get visual feedback after an operation, which will make people full of desire to continue operation. Micro-interaction can also be used to guide the user to the correct operation.

Specifically, smart designers use interesting interactions such as loading animations, smooth icon switching to attract users’ attention. In the long run, micro-interaction will become a more rich topic, it is worth designers to continuously explore and innovate.

3. Long scrolling and parallax

Long scrolling is a great way to convert content from desktop to mobile, helping users get a lot of uninterrupted access to one-way swipes.

However, the long scrolling rolling has been very popular, it’s more worth to mention parallax scrolling. The principle of parallax is to allow foreground and background to scroll at different speeds, creating a deep visual perception. On this basis, many designers have begun to try parallax scrolling of multi-graphical elements, presenting a complete story just by scroll and graphics.

The appropriate scrolling effect will not only be able to raise efficiency and hierarchically transfer content and information but also elegantly and smoothly improve the sense of sophistication of the product itself.

This site is the best case of long-range parallax effects and you can find out more about it at http://everylastdrop.co.uk

4. Full-screen video

Vision is always the most perceptive of people. Big banner image has become the mainstream design trend in recent years, and the success of the big image and the development of bandwidth paved the way for full-screen immersive video, the appearance of dynamic video in product design gets much common.

Huge, dynamic and beautiful visual perception is actually in line with the pursuit of natural beauty of mankind itself, immersive video has much value to app home page so that the background layout can be more gorgeous.

5. Half-flat design

Flat style has occupied half of the design market. Under the influence of the card view, in order to highlight content and perception, flat design has become more three-dimensional and multi-dimensional by using a lot of shadows and contrast.

The smooth shadow enhances the depth and complexity of the interface without any conflict with the original style. It is believed that the flat style will not stop at the current overall style, and more modes will be incorporated to optimize and innovate continuously.

6. Augmented Reality

With the launch of Animoji on the iPhone X, 2017 will be the year of AR technology in mobile apps. With technological advances, this year’s AR products have made tremendous breakthroughs in information integration, real-time interaction and precise positioning. In addition, AR is not only used for children’s science and education cognition nowadays but also has been greatly enriched in the field of mobile product application. Now it has covered fields such as military, medical, building, education, engineering, film and entertainment.

What worth mentioning is the IKEA Catalog APP, as early as two years IKEA has begun attempts on the field of AR, limited to the then technical, the experience was relatively poor at that time. At present, this App has been able to present the IKEA products in 3D in a more accurate manner. With the hand-held mobile phone rotation angle, the proportion of virtual furniture can appear in any corner of the house, and the purchasing experience of furniture has been greatly improved.

7. Gradient color

The gradual change of colors has gradually come into view since Instagram logo changes. The reason is that the flattening style is extremely easy to cause homogeneity, and the design language that pursues visual richness is beginning to return. Except the semi-flat style mentioned above, visually intriguing gradient color can firmly grasp the user’s eye, and simple graphics and high saturation gradient color can strike the right balance between design convenience and visual component sense.

Accurate use of color is conducive to arousing the user’s emotions and create a personalized product that allows users to perceive your product through color.

8. Prototyping

As the user experience and interface design continue to be integrative, the prototyping design plays a more important role in the app design. High efficiency and visualization are the industry’s potential demand for prototype design this year. Prototype design tools are always under optimization, for example, Mockplus latest version 3.2 supports fast data auto-fill, exports the UI flow of a project with only one click, accelerating efficiency of prototyping on the mobile, thereby improving the overall workflow, leaving more time to think about the user experience.

Summary

2017 is a year of transition. On the one hand, the development of AI, AR and VR technologies powers app design. There are numerous unknown possibilities and opportunities in the future. On the other hand, the basic people-oriented principle of design will continue to guide app design to a correct direction. Regardless of the mobile app design trend, designers have to stick to their own ideas of judgment, resulting in sustained learning and innovation.

A Look Back at 2017(II): How AI Will Affect UI/UX Design?

AI and UX are inextricably entwined in today’s world where we’re now facing a turning point in the new era of design. They both affect and inform how the other works, however some people think AI will eventually replace designers and the need for human-driven UX. “The end is near”, according to those specialists in artificial intelligence and robotics.

One typical example is a TEDx talk of Futurist Thomas Frey, saying that over 2 billion jobs will disappear by 2030, and robots will probably take over a portion of jobs which are now occupied by humans. Looking back to 2017, we can find that AI has been widely applied in various fields, like Uber’s self-driving car, Chatbots of customer representatives, Amazon’s delivery drones – the revolution of robotic is just getting started.

Will the rise of AI replace the work of designers, are we in trouble? How will AI impact the design field, designer’s career as well as design tools in the future? Here, let’s explore those questions together.

Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Designers?

At least No in the near future. You may remember the release of The Grid (a website design and development system powered by AI) several years ago, it announced to make site modules and interactive patterns itself, without help of a designer. However, it’s a disaster when the world see the first website designed by The Grid.

As a matter of fact, a majority of jobs taken over by robots will be repetitive & mechanical work done by blue collar. Things are much more complex when you look at design, and humans have the unique ability to create empathy for users and set background for design.

The truth is – it will be a collaborative effort for designers and robots. Instead of problem, there will be a series of opportunities, including:

1. Get robots trained to work automatically.

The work of image resizing and color adjustment can be done by robots, which increase the designers’ productivity a lot. Most recently, Airbnb has announced a technology that identifies the design sketches and then convert them into coding in real time. In this way, designers will have more time for the strategic decisions of product, and this is something that computers will take at least one decade to learn.

2. Create more intelligent and modular design system.

For both large-sized enterprises or start-ups, designers should ensure the system consistency for the consistency between product and users. If coupled with a layer of intelligence, these systems can analyze how users interact with UI elements and which functions are the most effective. Website building platforms like Squarespace and Wix have begun to use AI technology to help users make some minor design decisions.

3. Make personalized user experience.

This means your product gives visitors a more personalized experience based on the collected user data, such as where those users come from, what type of device being used, etc. All of those data would be pretty helpful for them to find what they really need, and thus results in more conversion rate.

Why We Need AI & Machine Learning Technology?

It’s not easy to make a machine understand the emotional part of design, but we have to admit that AI and UX design are “co-evolutionary” relationship. When the machine automate the repetitive tasks for people, then the creativity of human brains will be boosted a lot. Designers will be more focused on management, creative thinking, communication and other more advanced capabilities to keep them competitive.

Furthermore, the AI technology can also help SMEs to get a basic design quality judgment for the first draft. For example, a website called eyequant can help provie “unattended eye tracker” service, and below is the result of neural network prediction obtained through data training. Not only can the computer know the focus of users through the movement of eyes, but understand the language through speech. The style of art can also be acquired, not to mention a simple App design.

Apart from the effect on the design in practice, AI will help generate a new design role – Trainer. With the further development of technology and AI, there will be more design roles, and it help promote the democratization process of design. Design tools like Autodesk can quickly generate hundreds of different design plans after the designers’ input, and designers only need to choose their favorite ones and make them combined to get the most satisfactory results.

How AI Affect UI/UX Design Tools in Long Terms?

Obviously, the machine has all the composition and color matching ability of human, but the product experience cannot be easily and alone fulfilled. Based on UX (User Experience), the product in the near future will place more emphasis on EX (Experience Design), which caters to user persona, behavior and context understanding to bring more values to users.

As a result, design tools which supports user interaction and usability testing will still be heavily needed, but the tools that simply support wireframe or UI mapping will be faced to transform or be eliminated gradually. From UX to EX, designers will need to think more about how to make the best use of tools, empowering themselves rather than being replaced, of which the design thinking and logic seem to be so important. A tool that helps designers better implement creativity, communication, material collection and reduce manual labor will be the darling of the future “AI + Design” era.

Wrap Up

From those examples above, we can find that the AI technology doesn’t and won’t replace designers, instead help automate the repetitive tasks to make us focus more on the strategic decision of design. This will help to create a better and personalized experience.

Top 9 UI Design Trends for Mobile Apps in 2018

Mobile app User Interface design trends keep changing based on varying user needs. However, that does not mean UI design trends for mobile apps in 2018 could not be predicted. Actually, after carefully analyzing UI design trends and innovations in the past few years, we could find some laws behind and predict the possible trends that will also continue into the following 2018. Hence, here we will share top 9 UI design trends of mobile App for you in 2018:

1). Overlapping effects

The overlapping of fonts, graphics and colors cannot only make UI designs more eye-catching and distinctive, but also create a sense of space. And that’s also why overlapping of different mobile app UI design elements has been widely used by designers in recent years.

Moreover, in some cases, the overlapping of the same elements, combining with shadows, will also make the whole mobile app interface designs more fantasy and impressive.

Hence, the overlapping of different elements in mobile application UX design will also be a trend in 2018.

2). Color Gradients

In last few years, rising numbers of designers adopt color gradients in their design works when they are trying to design logos, buttons and backgrounds for mobile app interfaces. Why? The answer is simple. Even when you have chosen a single color, you can also show a rich sense of hierarchy and draw a beautiful picture while combing it with color gradients and different graphics.

Therefore, the color gradients will not only be popular throughout 2017, but also will continue in 2018.

3). Opacity

The same components can have different effects after you have adjusted or set their transparency. So, while designing phone app interfaces, setting the opacity of different components is a nice way to work out an excellent design work.

Moreover, the transparency settings for different colors or graphics can also create a colorful glass texture for app interface components. And that’s why designers widely use this method into mobile app logo designs.

Overall, no matter how you will add opacity effects to UI design works for mobile apps, setting transparency of different components will have a definite rise in popularity for the next year.

4). Simple curves and geometries

In comparison with a complicated and changeable UI design style, more and more designers have adopted a simpler and more natural design style in mobile app UI design. For example, in comparison with a phone app interfaces covered with various colors, graphics, buttons, pictures, animations and more complicated elements, a phone interface with simple curves, geometries and buttons could be more effective for people to focus on the major functions and features of a mobile app.

So, this way will also be trending all the way across 2018.

5). Strong color or font contrast for better readability

Strong color or font contrast could also help designers work out an excellent UI design to attract user attention. For example, adding fonts in different styles, types, sizes or orders can also deliver a sense of hierarchy and space. And color in different types and styles also create sharp contrasts and make entire designs more colorful and eye-catching.

6). Custom illustration interfaces

In 2017, custom illustration also plays an important role in mobile app UI design and will also surely be popular in 2018. The mobile application interfaces with different styles of illustrations, like hand-drawing, simple style, paper-cut style and famous painting style illustrations, can not only make applications more interesting and distinctive, but also give mobile apps personalities and make them more impressive for app users.

7). Functional animations and interactions

Adding animations or interactions to icons, fonts, photos and buttons of a mobile UI interface always has a positive impact on the app users and give users more pleasant experiences. And this trend will also continue in the following 2018.

Moreover, it is noteworthy that micro-interaction, which is initially introduced and highly recommended by Dan Saffer, will also be continuously developed and used by designers in the coming 2018.

Micro-interactions, which mean to add more interaction designs for some details of mobile app interfaces, allow users to communicate with apps easily and also get feedback soon. That is definitely a good trend which designers should follow to complete their mobile app UI design.

8). Voice-activated interfaces

Voice-activated interfaces of mobile apps simplify the operations of users. Just like using Siri, you can easily start or log in a voice-activated mobile app with voice orders instead of clicking any button or entering any password. Moreover, in 2017, most mobile apps with voice ordering services also finally became the most popular apps over the internet. So, voice-activated mobile apps will also be continuously popular in 2018.

Of course, except voice-activated interfaces, fingerprint-activated interfaces will play an important role in the mobile app interface designs in the future.

9). Mixing different trends will also be a trend in 2018

In actual design cases, designers will not only use one method mentioned above to complete their app UI designs. Oppositely, they will often adopt two, three or more methods, like overlapping effects, color gradients, functional animations and color contrasts, etc, together to get much better and unexpected effects.

Hence, mixing different trends in mobile app UI design will also be a trend in 2018.

Wrap up

Mobile app UI designs are as complicated and changeable as user needs. So, no matter whether these top 9 UI design trends for mobile applications will really gain their era in the upcoming 2018, as a UI designer, you are always supposed to stay innovative and creative all the time, grasp user needs constantly and combine new scientific and technological achievements timely. And then, it will not be hard for you to complete a mobile app UI design with distinctive interfaces and good user experiences.

8 Excellent Mobile First Design Examples for Designer Inspiration

In 2011, Luke Wroblewski has devised a concept of mobile first design. This was undoubtedly a new design principle that broke the industry’s conventions at that time. While in the current Internet era, it has been totally accepted and lots of excellent mobile first design examples emerged. It has been proved that people or business who follow this principle to make the best mobile first design website, he will be the winner of the market and opportunities. So, that’s easy to see how important of the mobile first design for business and designers to make products.

The redesign of YouTube in 2017 has already embodied the authority of mobile first design. Material Design reflects the “desktop version is a subordinate of mobile version”. Which just corresponded to Nader’s mobile first concept who is the current CEO of Microsoft.

There is a most common explanation for the current PC and mobile design. That is, previously mobile version was a reduced desktop page, while the current desktop version is an enlarged mobile app. So, I listed 8 excellent mobile first design examples for your case study and inspiration.

1. YouTube

What attractive in design: Blank for button and text display, Night mode

To some degree, the Material Design language for the YouTube Desktop Web Edition also reflects the preference for mobile devices. So that’s reasonable to adopt the responsive design. So there is no doubt that the blank for buttons and text display is to adapt to the user habit on small-screen touch mobile devices.

The new night mode also shows its surrender to mobile devices. The interface of the desktop version is the white background. For the mobile device, it’s better to use the screen yellow in night-light mode, rather than the black and white background. All light removed, small screen, so the best method is to reduce the brightness to comfort users’ eyes.

2. Apple

What attractive in design: Convenient scroll navigation

A user experience survey published by the Nielson/Norman Group shows that hiding navigation (like hamburger navigation) reduces content discoverability by 21% and increases navigation by 2 seconds on average. The Apple mobile website has a very good content layout. So users do not need to use the navigation button but scroll down the page to access information, very easy and convenient. The shopping bag icon is usually necessary and clear for user’s first glance for shopping. Furthermore, if no information wanted after browsing the page, you can search the desired information in the bottom navigation.

3. Pitchfork

What attractive in design: Thumb design

Although there are many studies of thumbnail areas, many sites and applications out the navigation on the top of the screen. However, if you are careful enough, you will notice that the larger the phone is, the harder it is for the user to access the content on the outer edge of the screen. By contrast, Pitchfork puts the main navigation bar at the bottom of the screen, where the thumb touches most easily. With the growing number of mobile devices, this design type should be the future trend.

4. Typeform

What attractive in design: Large Menu Button – Great for touchscreens

Typeform has a beautiful desktop design with a simple copy, high-definition video, animation and other design elements. But the complex design components are not user-friendly to mobile users, such as video and animation, which can significantly affect page load times. As a result, they cut down many unnecessary design elements on the mobile website page but retained the large menu buttons that work well on mobile devices, simplifying the overall mobile experience with simplicity and sophistication.

5. Airbnb

What attractive in design: Card Design

Card design makes it easier for users and information to connect with each other for a limited time. This is why Google chose card design as their design standard. Other Internet companies such as Airbnb have gradually accepted and adopted this approach. Each card’s message is concise and effective and usually consists of a title, picture, graphic, or profile text. This design gives users enough information and makes it easy for them to decide if they want to go deeper and learn more.

6. Smashing Magazine

What attractive in design: Emphasis on users, rational use of screen space optimization

Data show that more and more Internet users choose to stop the content they do not want, especially mobile users in recent years. Constant navigation settings, full-screen advertising, excessive marketing terms, and these do not give users a good user experience. If you want to push user ads or lead users to continue reading, you can push selectively based on what users are viewing. That’s why the strategic layout of the content is easier for users to click. If you simply break the user experience or get them to jump pages in order to get profit, you will lose users gradually, and the profit will decrease as users lose.

7. Facebook

What attractive in design: Effective animation

The animations on the web pages help users to understand the current image vividly and give the user experience more expressiveness and humanity than to entertain the public. For example, MailChimp uses the Hi-five animation as a greeting after a successful mailing-out, a mini-animation of Twitter’s forwarding or liking of functions, and a vivid expression package like Facebook. But if you want to animate on the page, please make sure it is elegant and decent.

8. Evernote

What attractive in design: Clean and fresh mobile UI interface

Evernote mainly provides note storage services which allow users to access information on all platform devices. So Evernote must get the right mobile user experience. Like the desktop version of the web design, Evernote’s mobile website design keeps the same UI design clean and fresh. In addition, the right CTA button on the web is very useful to the user.

“Web design first, and then transplant to mobile design,” this conventional model is no longer applicable today. Mobility is bound to be the design and development trend for the Internet industry in the future. Therefore, mobile first website design will become a new trend, even if this concept has existed for several years.

Why is the principle of mobile first design so important?

1. According to the Global Internet Report, up to 2016, the number of smart-phone users in worldwide has reached 2.8 billion.

2. Meanwhile, people spend more and more time on the mobile network every day.

3. As early as 2012, sales of smart-phones surpassed PC sales worldwide.

The explosive growth of mobile demand requires designers to pay more attention to the mobile version and follow the mobile design first principles in product design. So I believe that these reasons are enough for designers and merchants to study the mobile website design and benefit from it.

How to follow the mobile first design principles?

To create a mobile-friendly website that meets the mobile first design principles, a prototyping design tools such as Mockplus is needed.

Step 1: Log in your Mockplus account. If no, you can apply for a free Mockplus account.

Step 2: Create a new mobile phone project;

Think about the layout

The mobile first design method is different from desktop first. In mobile devices, we need to think about effective information be displayed in small screen layouts. However, it does not simply reduce the information as page layouts change.

In this mobile first design example, we know some of the elements are required, such as the website’s name and app logo should be concluded. However, not all desktop web design elements are suitable for mobile devices. So let’s set priorities based on the purpose of the travel website:

Start page, login page, welcome page, city list page, homepage, detail page, search page, activity page, personal information page and the like.

Final prototype design effect presentation

Gogobot Online HTML Preview: https://www.mockplus.cn/sample/post/656

Cards design and rolling content display in line with mobile users access and operation of information by scrolling up and down the pages. No big picture seize the limited screen resources, and the scrolling of information is also willing to be accepted by the user. Because compared with the hamburger menu, users are more happy to scroll the pages.

Desktop display: Gogobot

Conclusion

Through the revision of Youtube in this year, I believe that there will be more websites to pay attention to the mobile first design. Sincerely, I hope that the 8 mobile first design examples listed above can be inspirational for the construction of your new product or new website. In a short sentence, due to the limited traffic, the mobile website must be simple and rough, while the desktop website should be the best and be gorgeous. But not the mobile first almost becomes a right bullshit, as it becomes a common sense for almost all of Silicon Valley’s mainstream businesses.

11 Best Free Material Design UI Kits for Sketch & PSD in 2018

Material design has formed it’s distinctive design style since 2014. Created and released by Google, it becomes a full platform design language specification including Android Mobile、Android Tablet、Desktop Chrome, etc. Material Design can be seen across all of Google’s mobile apps including Gmail, Inbox, Calendar, YouTube and even the desktop sites.

Material design provides user a real experience with its clean and direct effect. Many UX/UI designers have followed this trend in their design work. I’d like to share 11 excellent material design UI kits, most of them are free, hope can bring you some inspiration.

1. Free Material Design UI Kit

Format: PSD

Price: Free

What’s special:

• Works in Photoshop CS6+
• Free font family used
• Grouped Layers
• Customizable vector shapes
• Material design UI style

This free UI kit has been designed so that you can easily get your next Material Design project kick started quickly. Every element, widget, button and form within the kit can be fully customized as per your requirements. It comes in PSD format and you’re completely free to use the kit in both your personal and commercial design projects.

Download here. http://www.designtory.net/free-psd/free-material-d…

2. Material Design Kit

Format: PSD, Sketch

Price: 99$/1 user

What’s special:

• Compatible with Sketch 40+ and Photoshop CC 15+
• Compatible with iOS & Android
• 250+ App UI templates
• Material Design guide

Material Design UI Kit is the ultimate library of UI elements, App templates, and style guides combined into high-quality source files for Sketch & Photoshop. Everything you need for a faster workflow and better results when design for Android n is here.

Download here. https://materialdesignkit.com/

3. Android Material Design UI Kit Sketch Resource

Format: Sketch

Price: Free

What’s special:

• Compatible with Android
• Mobile App UI elements

This Android Material Design UI Kit for Sketch was designed by Ivan Bjelajac. this great Sketch library contains plenty mobile app UI elements with more than 30000 download times.

Download here: https://www.sketchappsources.com/free-source/852-a…

4. Google Material Design UI Sketch Resource

Format: Sketch

Price: Free

What’s special:

• Designed by Google
• Google Material Design layouts

Google Material Design layouts, contain light and dark symbols for status bars, app bars, bottom toolbars, cards, dropdown menus, search field, dividers, side navs, dialogs, floating action buttons, and other components.

Downloaad here: https://www.sketchappsources.com/free-source/597-g…

5. Material Kit

Format: SD element and HTML/CSS/JS implementation

Price: Free

What’s special:

• Lifetime Updates & Regular Support
• 60 Handcrafted Components
• 2 Customized Plugins
• 3 Example Pages

Material Kit is a Free Bootstrap UI Kit with a fresh, new design inspired by Google’s material design. It’s a great pleasure to introduce to you the material concepts in an easy to use and beautiful set of components. Along with the restyling of the Bootstrap elements, you will find three fully-coded example pages, to help you design your next project.

Download here: https://www.creative-tim.com/product/material-kit

6. Material Kit Pro

Format: PSD element and HTML/CSS/JS implementation.

Price: 79$

What’s special:

• Material Kit Pro
• 1000 Handcrafted Components
• 7 Customized Plugins
• 11 Example Pages: + Documentation, + SASS Files, + Photoshop Files
• Bootstrap Based
• Fully Responsive

Start Your Development With A Badass Bootstrap UI Kit inspired by Material Design. If you like Google’s Material Design, you will love this kit! It features a huge number of components built to fit together and look amazing.

Download here: https://www.creative-tim.com/product/material-kit-…

7. Lora Material Design UI Kit

Format: PSD, Sketch

Price: 30$

What’s special:

• Compatible with Sketch App $ Photoshop
• Unique screens: 80+ different screens
• Material design guidelines
• Organized and named groups and layers
• Free Google fonts and photos
• Free try before buying
• Colourful & Modern Design

Prototype, design or develop any material design mobile app! Lora Material Design is a huge UI Kit with more than 80 material design screens in 12 categories. Each screen is fully customizable, exceptionally easy to use and carefully layered and grouped in Sketch app and Adobe Photoshop. It’s all you need for quick prototype, design and develops any Material Design app in Sketch or Photoshop. You can use it for designing social network apps, dashboard & stats apps, media & news apps (blogs, videos, galleries…), e-commerce apps (shop, store), booking apps, music and much more… Enjoy!

Download here: https://ui8.net/products/lora-material-design-ui-k…

8. Material Design UI Kit Freebie

Format: PSD

Price: Free

What’s special:

• Compatible with Photoshop
• Material design guidelines
• 6 files categories

This material design UI kits has a small set of basic pieces consistent with the guidelines of Material Design. By the way, there are photos from Mad Men show, which everyone should appreciate. 

Download here. https://dribbble.com/shots/2064912-Material-Design…

9. Free Material UI Kit PSD

Format: PSD

Price: Free

What’s special:

• Modern Google material style
• Fully Editable PSD Files (fully layered files)
• Well organized layers
• Modern Design

This UI kit contains many usable elements, including profile, music player, statistics, graph, button, navigation menu, sing in page, any much more. It’s designed based on Google Material Design. To create website and mobile app. you can find some small elements and idea about Material design, this PSD gives you free UI templates and elements. You can use those UI elements on your webpage design, or user interface design of your mobile application.

Download here. http://psdboom.com/downloads/free-material-ui-kit-…

10. Android UI Design Kit 4.4

Format: PSD

Price: Free

What’s special:

• Action Bar – PullToRefresh
• Action Bar – NotBoring
• HoloGraphLibrary
• Scroll Bar
• Search Action Bar
• Contextual Action Bar

Every building blocks from the previous version are included in this material design UI kits, making it the most complete Design Kit to date. 2 tips: you must first install both Roboto and Roboto Slab fonts before using the Design Kit. And the recommended way to start designing is to use the Quick Start file, then Shift+Drag the required UI elements from the Building Block file

Download here: https://androiduiux.com/2014/01/10/android-ui-desi…

11. Vivid – Soft Material UI Kit

Format: PSD, Sketch, JPG

Price: $48

What’s special:

• Built on a Bootstrap grid – 12 columns – 1170px bootstrap grid system
• 170+ components in 6 categories: Navigation – 43 components; Headers & Sliders – 8 components.

Vivid is a Soft Material UI Kit, that combines clean typography with pixel perfect elements providing you with a perfect tool for creating any type of website or web application. 6 categories includes Widgets – 55 components, Forms – 26 components, Shopping – 20 components, Blogging – 20 components, Style Guide – includes color palette, typography guidelines, icons and UI elements, Everything is vector based. Everything is well named and grouped helping you to fastly find the desired element and create projects within minutes.

Download here: https://creativemarket.com/TheUIShop/414366-Vivid-…

What’s in common among the above 11 material design UI Kits?

1. Design concept

Abandoned excess impurities and disorder, material design only need to retain its most primitive pure form, spatial relationship, change and transition, with the flexible nature of the virtual world, restore the most real experience, to achieve the effect of simple and intuitive.

2. Color scheme

No messy colors, generally choose a main color with a backing color. Use color variations to create more multi-colors. “ Darker color variations are made by lowering brightness and increasing saturation. Brighter color variations are made by increasing brightness and lowering saturation.” check the resources here: How To Use Color In UI Design Wisely to Create A Perfect UI Interface?

3. Icon

In general, the desktop icon size is 48dp X 48dp, while the small icon size is 24dp X 24dp. The best area should be the central 20dp X 20dp.

4. Fonts

Roboto for fonts, Noto for Chinese.

Above are the 11 best material design UI kits created by top designers and developers. If you’re looking for a rapid prototyping tool to quick make use of those material design UI kits, try out Mockplus. With a wealth of 200 components and 3000 UI icons, Mockplus can make your design refined a lot in a faster and easier way. Since the 3.2 release, it allows users to import the ready-made page templates of their choices into the design, helping beginners to get started and inspired in a smooth way. The best thing is Mockplus supports Sketch import, you can easy create a prototyping by adding interactions to those UI elements. Click here to learn more details.

More free resources of material design UI kits:

1. Material UI Kit

https://psdrepo.com/free-psd/material-ui-kit-freeb…

Compatible with Sketch App & Photoshop.

2. Music App UI Kit – Material

https://dribbble.com/shots/3374439-Music-App-ui-ki…

Compatible with Photoshop.

3. Material Design UI Kit PSD Free Download

https://dribbble.com/shots/1803843-Material-Design…

Compatible with Photoshop.

4. Material UI Kit

https://dribbble.com/shots/3363887-Material-UI-Kit…

Forma: Sketch, PSD, xd Photoshop, Sketch and Adobe XD.

As a debut shot, it’s my pleasure to share with you this freebie – a Material Design UI kit for Photoshop, Sketch and Adobe XD.

5. Material Design Widgets UI Kit – PSD

https://dribbble.com/shots/2128765-Material-Design…

Format: PSD. Material design widgets pack for desktop/mobile.

6. Material Design

https://dribbble.com/shots/1629860-Material-Design…

Format: Sketch. Web, Android, and iOS projects.