I have been working with Materialize design for five years in development. For example, when I need to make a table, in manual development coding I would have to make the table, then design it, add pagination and numbering, and decide how much data should be visible. Materialize provides all of this in a single component like a table. I just use the style table and it provides me everything I need. Whatever would take me a lot of time to create manually, I can accomplish simply by using the component. Within five to ten minutes, I can get everything I need from there.
Consistent design has accelerated my development but needs fresher themes and leaner components
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
Materialize offers the best features including design and responsive functionality, which helps me perform activities in multiple ways.
It helps me to speed up development and maintain consistent design as it provides every kind of component. I use Materialize in most cases and have used components like sidebars and tables, which provides consistency across my projects.
Customization is also supported, and the integration features are great as well. Materialize provides custom basic style classes which help me design and customize more, and the integration features allow me to easily implement functions and any functionality I need.
What needs improvement?
Materialize provides a UI that is similar to what everyone uses. Everyone has a similar design, and even with customizability options, which is a complex thing, there are fewer options for a design UI. If I use Materialize in my website and another person uses the same UI, we will both have the same design which looks similar with nothing changed. The UI theme should have more options so we can see different modules.
Performance is very good, but at some points the UI and functionalities are a little larger to see and analyze. For example, Shadcn has smaller and great UI as well as functionality. I can find everything in Shadcn such as calendar and dropdown, and many other things that I think are less present in Materialize.
Design and more new options would make an impact on improving Materialize.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working in my field for five years.
How are customer service and support?
I did not have any contact with customer service.
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
I use multiple things in multiple projects. In other projects, I have used Shadcn and Chakra UI, and there are many others I could name. I have used Chakra UI, and in most cases I use Tailwind CSS for the design.
What other advice do I have?
Materialize is consistent and dependable. I can see a lot of versions have come out over time, which is a very great thing.
I would recommend other people to use it because of its consistency in design and scalability.
Materiaze has a lot of improvements coming, and I would love to be part of that development. I have gotten a chance with Materialize.
I am satisfied with the product. It was a great experience for me and cost-effective as well. For me it has saved both time and money.
I would suggest making the interview shorter. It is good, but there are too many questions. Nobody has a half hour or one hour to give for an interview, so it should be ten to fifteen minutes.
My overall review rating for Materialize is seven out of ten.
