Gestures let users interact with screen elements using touch.

Gestures

Selection refers to how users indicate specific items they intend to take action on.

Selection

States are visual representations used to communicate the status of a component or interactive element.

States of Being

"States are visual representations used to communicate the status of a component or interactive element."

States of Being 

"Selection refers to how users indicate specific items they intend to take action on."

Material Design: Selection 

"Gestures let users interact with screen elements using touch."

Material Design: Gestures 

Motions can draw people's attention to the desired area of a page or design through animations such as transition. 

Motion in UI Design

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Material Design is a system of guidelines built by Google that is focused on helping teams of designers and developers build the best regions, surfaces, and components in user interfaces. This system is the groundwork for both wide and narrow UI viewpoints that are applicable to Android, iOS, Flutter, and the web. 

Material Design System

Material Design mirrors the material world in the way objects and elements move and interact on the interface. 

- Surfaces
- Elevation
- Light and Shadows

Environment

"Navigation is the act of moving between screens of an app to complete tasks. It’s enabled through several means: dedicated navigation components, embedding navigation behavior into content, and platform affordances."

Types of navigation:
- Understanding Navigation
- Navigation Transitions
- Search

Navigation

- The color system
- Applying color to UI
- Color usage 
- Text legibility
- Dark theme

Color

Sound communicates information in ways that improve the user experience

Sound

Typography can bring together a design or feel of a product.

Typography

- Confirmation & acknowledgement
- Data formats
- Data visualization
- Empty states
- Help & feedback
- Imagery
- Launch screen
- Onboarding
- Offline states
- Writing

Communication

Material surfaces can be displayed in different shapes. Shapes direct attention, identify components, communicate state, and express brand.

* Shaping material
* Shape and meaning
* Components and shape
* Shape customization tool
* Implementation

Shape

- [Material 3 Figma file](https://www.figma.com/community/file/1035203688168086460)
- [Meterial theme builder Figma file](https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/1034969338659738588/Material-Theme-Builder)
- M2 Adobe XD file (download on the [design resource section](https://m2.material.io/resources))
- M2 Sketch file (download on the [design resource section](https://m2.material.io/resources))

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