> Widgets are cool, but mostly we need tables and forms.
This (though I agree with sibling comment about a few more being useful).
I reviewed 20 popular admin themes last month for our startup, and was v disappointed with them. Either due to code quality, or throwing in loads of useless widgets which are more consumer rather than business oriented.
There's a gap for a theme that's more like Stripe's dashboard, not these heavy-left-hand-menu dashboard themes. Or something like VMWare's Clarity Design System (https://vmware.github.io/clarity/)
Wow, thanks for the link to Clarity. That looks like something we could get a lot of use out of.
We're currently using Looper[0], but even that is a little too opinionated and visually "heavy" for business apps where productivity and clarity are paramount.
I disagree. Admins are complex. See https://marmelab.com/react-admin-demo/, it's a (fully working) admin built with material design and it uses about 30 specialized styled components. Think notifications, toolbars, menus, grids, etc.
Maybe it’s because I’m on mobile but that UI is awful. Things are oversized when there’s no reason for them to be. Lists can only show like 2 items on the screen without having to scroll. Useless.
The segments and categories sections have a more sane design for an Admin.
Once I've got decent form styles and a navbar I find that most of the rest is either very simple, or very application specific.
Widgets are cool, but mostly we need tables and forms.