Our goal with MUI is to create a lightweight framework that follows Google’s Material Design guidelines.
The following are our areas of focus as we move towards version 1.0.
One of our most important goals as we move towards version 1.0 is to provide support across all major platforms and technologies (Web, Email, React, iOS, Android, WebComponents). We already have support for Web and Email and we still need support for the following platforms:
We would like to support a set of core Material Design elements that have wide adoption and have reached some level of design stability. The following features still need to be implemented in MUI:
In order to support higher-level UI elements and other non-core Material Design features we would like to provide a plugin architecture and recipe gallery that developers can use to copy-paste code into their projects. Our model for how this could be done is Flask's plugin architecture and code recipe site.
The following Material Design components should be included in the recipe gallery:
Many developers and designers use tools such as Sketch, Illustrator, Photoshop and Omnigraffle to help them in the design process. We would like to provide component libraries for the most popular design tools:
We believe that the current generation of CSS frameworks can be broadly placed into one of four categories based on their design influence and feature list:
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MUI is the first Google-inspired lightweight framework so we think we have a chance to build a framework that will be heavily used by a large percentage of the web. We hope you’re as excited about the future of MUI as we are!