I currently work at a company that creates financial products for many customers who have their own brand guidelines. When our customers wish to take our products, we apply their branding (skinning) for them before the products get shipped out. Currently our teams use Bootstrap to create and modify our stylings.
Recently there has been a trend towards Material Design. We’re currently in the middle of creating a product roadmap and to keep some of our products fresh, our base skin, before any customer skinning would incorporate some elements of Material Design. Due to this, some people, especially one of our main architects, have gravitated towards Angular Material, to quickly style Material Based elements. This would seem like a very good idea, if we were adamant that all of our customers use Material Design elements.
Unfortunately, I feel some of our customers may resist this change due to their guidelines, and them not wanting any material design elements.
Due to what I feel Angular Material being ‘too much tied towards Material Design’, IMHO it would be very difficult to modify the standard angular material styles, which could involve, stripping them back and restyling to conform to the customers’ branding requirements.
Whilst I am adamant that our company should still stick with Bootstrap due to its flexibility and it being agnostic to design styles like material, among other reasons, I have to keep an open mind and explore Angular Material further to be able to be able to make a more informed assessment. Also I note there are some 3rd party libraries that have implemented Material Design principles for Bootstrap as well.
Which comes to my main question, has anyone implemented a website/webapp, prototype or production ready that used Angular Material, but implemented a design that did not include Material Design Elements? What are your opinions on this matter and how was the experience?
Thanks in advance.