Material Design / Human Interface Guidelines
Also written as Material Design, Material 3, Material You, Human Interface Guidelines, HIG, Liquid Glass
The official design rulebooks for each platform: Google's Material Design (now Material 3) for Android, and Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for iOS, which were refreshed with the 'Liquid Glass' look in 2025. They cover navigation, gestures, typography and accessibility so apps feel at home on each phone.
Think of it like
Local customs for two countries: the same app should greet people the way each country expects.
Junior or senior?
Mostly a designer's or senior mobile developer's concern.
Senior sounds like
Can give an example where they deliberately made the iOS and Android versions behave differently to match each platform.
Ask them
“Where did your iOS and Android apps deliberately behave differently to match each platform's guidelines?”
Reading Material Design / Human Interface Guidelines on a resume
- Table-stakes
- Most people in this field list Material Design / Human Interface Guidelines, so its presence tells you little, and opening a screen with it can make the call sound junior. Ask what they built with it instead.
Sourcing for Material Design / Human Interface Guidelines
Every way it's written
("Material Design" OR "Human Interface Guidelines" OR "Material 3")Paste into LinkedIn Recruiter, Naukri or your ATS. Combine with a job title and location.
Wider net, with accepted substitutes
("Material Design" OR "Human Interface Guidelines" OR "Material 3" OR "Material You")Includes skills a hiring manager would usually accept instead. Use it when the exact search runs dry.