Your primary resource to understanding material design is material.google.com, which is the living online documentation outlining the tenets and principles of material design. It really ought to be bookmarked by any serious designer or developer enthused by material design.

While we encourage you to read through Google's documentation, we feel that it would not be terribly superfluous if we advanced an approach on how to think about material design. Our goal is to give you, as a reader interested in the material design philosophy, an intuitive and symbolic understanding of the paradigm. We hope that this brief introduction readies you with a mindset that will expedite your journey through the material design online documentation and stimulate a level of creativity that should leave you well-positioned to project your imagination onto tangible design ideas for your wearable apps.

This section is only intended for those of us who may be new to the idea and may need...