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Have you ever used an app that looks like each screen was designed by a different company? Or worse, based on iOS hand-me-down design mocks? No matter how feature rich or well architected an app is, a jarring user experience casts a shadow on all the hard work that we do. The application Nicolette is currently working on lacked consistent design across the many screens they have. While the designers worked hard to create mocks using Material Design guidelines, the app still looked mismatched. The standardization work easily fell by the wayside as product prioritized other projects with tight deadlines. As a result, she ended up with a feature heavy application that lacked a clean, pleasant user experience. After meeting with another team at the company that had implemented the concept of a shareable “UI Toolkit” component in their app, she decided that engineering needed to combine efforts with design to bring their UI standardization project out of the backlog. This talk will cover how to create a shareable UI module for an Android application, the value that adds, and how to use Material Design and the Material Theming tool to create an app with a consistent, beautiful UI. Beyond that, Nicolette will share how she convinced the product team to prioritize this project, how she worked with the Design Team to bring their work into their implementation, and which tools enabled them in the process.

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