🆚 GOV.UK Design System vs. Material Design

Type

Design system
Design system

About

The GOV.UK Design System is an open-source design system that provides styles, components, and patterns to help UK government teams build consistent, user-centered digital services.

It includes reusable and accessible UI components for forms, navigation, and content, documented patterns for common user tasks, and design guidance for layout, typography, and color, with code examples released under an MIT license and regularly tested to meet WCAG 2.2 AA accessibility standards.

Material Design is a design system developed by Google that defines a unified visual and interaction language used across Android, web, and other platforms.

It uses grid-based layouts, consistent color palettes and typography, interactive "elevation" shadows and lighting to convey depth, motion and animation for user feedback and transitions, and a comprehensive set of ready-to-use UI components.

Headquarters

London, United Kingdom
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Design Systems › Rank #7
Design Systems › Rank #1
UI Frameworks › Rank #40

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Material Design technology is 109 times more popular than GOV.UK Design System.
Total websites

Market share

Design Systems

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Material Design is more popular than GOV.UK Design System in all countries.
United States
Germany
France
United Kingdom
India
Brazil
Spain
Iran
Italy
Russia

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Material Design is more popular than GOV.UK Design System in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Travel
Entertainment
Health
Finance/Banking
General News

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#76
#10,981
#11,555
#12,772
#13,897
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Name
Rank
#317
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See also

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