When you develop an application, you need a clear strategy on how to create your UI. The strategy should include using good, contrasting colors; having a consistent look and feel; it should work well on different devices, as well as browsers; and many more requirements. In short, there are a lot of requirements on an application being built for the web platform today when it comes to UI and UX. It is no wonder that most developers consider UI/UX to be a daunting task and therefore turn to UI frameworks that do a lot of the heavy lifting. There are some frameworks that are used more than others, namely:

• Twitter Bootstrap 
• Foundation
• HTML5 Quickstart

There is, however, a new kid on the block, or should we say, a new design language, Material Design. This chapter will try to explain what Material Design is and will look at what frameworks implement the principles of Material Design, and we will especially focus on Angular Material, made especially for Angular.

In this chapter, we will:

• Learn about what Material Design is and a little bit of its history
• Learn more about known implementations
• Delve deeper into Angular Material and what parts it consists of
• Build an Angular application with Angular Material