By Matthias Manoukian, UX leader and front­end developer at LumApps.

At LumApps we build web apps that have strong links with Google Apps for Work. I personally come from the Apple world so I didn’t know much more about Google ecosystem. I only used Gmail and Calendar through the MacOS/iOS clients. I was a bit lost. It was last year, on June.

In the Apple world, the idea of a conscious and unified user experience has always been the main concern, navigating through multiple graphic streams (Skeuomorphism, Flat Design).

In the Google world, engineer is the king. Amazing features but many teams spread around the world involving sometimes a lack of graphic consistency.

Because of our strong

A project growth at LumApps

Web application development must go fast and clean. At LumApps, to ensure a good quality of our products, to be sure our entire team collaborates efficiently, we inspect each step of the development process and define guidelines and tools.
To learn more about technologies we use, read our article on GCP & Angular.

Tools don't do all the job, but having a good toolbox saves your time... and mind.

Choose your work tools

We provide new and efficient machines for our staff. So we each have a Linux or Mac laptop, everyone can choose, and a second large screen: the main workstation is comfortable for the day to day work, but we keep mobility and

Here at LumApps, we embrace Google technologies throughout all our products and applications. We have been playing around with AngularJS for nearly 2 years and Material Design since Google I/O this year.

Today, we are proud to announce the release of an open-source framework : LumX.

LumX implements Material Design using Saas and AngularJS. We have followed Google's guidelines thoroughly and we are pretty much happy with the result.

To start using it right away, you can:

• Download the latest release.
• Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/lumapps/lumx.git.
• Install with Bower: bower install lumx.

Discover all the details: http://ui.lumapps.com/getting-started/installation

Please keep in mind that LumX is still young and that there