| Materials Scientist/Engineer who also codes here: 1. I highly dislike material design as a programmer and as a consumer. 2. Google and others using “Material Design”, Polymer, etc is really annoying and can be confusing until the context is clear. It makes searching about EITHER physical material design or coding material design a painful experience. I was searching for job openings around the SF Bay Area and the fact that they’ve made stuff like this and “product design engineer” very hard to filter through between hardware and software is just nonsense. There’s a reason we define specific words and terms for specific fields and it’s totally understandable that different fields would accidentally mess this up before we had the internet and global connectivity. However, now we have no excuse to not make things clear and distinct. When I say “Polymer” you should thing “long noodly chain of repeating units, aka many mers” not “a web component library.” When I search for “materials design/er” I should NOT see something programming related unless it’s computational materials design software (simulation, analysis, etc). Still, barring the complete confusion created by this stuff, I don’t like Materials Design. It’s ugly and needs to go away. Amp can do that too. We need to keep Amp about current. |
I'm sort of with you on some of your complaints (e.g. job titles), but this one doesn't stand. Do you want to ensure when we talk about amazon that we're talking about a river? That when we talk about googol we're talking about 10^100? Words are frequently reappropriated for company and product names, and that's fine.