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Material Design

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Reviewed:: Feb 20, 2022 by Computer Science

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Overview:

Material Design is a system for building bold and beautiful digital products. By uniting style, branding, interaction, and motion under a consistent set of principles and components, product teams can realize their greatest design potential.

Type of Material:

Tutorial

Recommended Uses:

This material is mainly for learners who intend to learn to design digital products for their business. It can also be used in the classroom teaching and lectures.

Technical Requirements:

Web browser

Identify Major Learning Goals:

Upon completion of the tutorial, learners are able to:

1. describe the Material Design and Material Components for the Web

2. apply Material Design to design Web pages

Target Student Population:

Grade School, College Upper Division, Professional

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

This requires to have at least the basic computer know-how, basic programming, HTML and have good design knowledge. Basic knowledge of databases is also required.

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Strengths:

The following summarizes the good features of this material:

1. This is a self-paced learning material

2. Learners may create a digital app in Androis, iOS, web at the same time.

3. Learners can create their own eCommerce site and begin their own business digitally.

4. Learners can use the codelab for building their applications.

In summary, the tutorial can provide a basic understanding of material design to learners. The tutorial has sufficient information and comprehensive content for learners. The information is accurate and the hands-on exercise align with the theory. The instruction is clear and the format is appropriate.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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Strengths:

The tutorial gives explanation about material design and material components. This can reinforce learners' concepts effectively. The learning objectives are clearly presented and each tutorial is followed by another more advanced tutorial. This can help learners to master the knowledge progressively.

The material is divided into 5 basic units from introduction to integration with web framework. This is helpful for the potential students who intends to learn and equip themselves with digital technology.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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Strengths:

The instruction is clear and the tutorial is easy to follow. It has running hands-on exercise and easy to engage learners to try the code. The Web page is designed consistently. It is simple, clean and effective.

Furthermore, the step by step learning approach is a useful feature. In other words, this helps in enhancing the usability of this material.

Concerns:

There is no clear instruction for the downloaded materials

It lacks interactivity. Learners need to test the code on their own PC setup.

Other Issues and Comments:: This material is helpful especially for those who intends to learn by themselves for creating a digital product. It is also helpful for the teachers to introduce this to their students as an assignment (e.g., learning how to develop a digital application).
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