[dba-Tech] Windows 8, Metro and modern UI

Jim Lawrence accessd at shaw.ca
Tue Apr 5 12:47:38 CDT 2011


Hi Gustav:

The new designs looks (more like sounds) really interesting. I like that
they are going more towards a flat and clean design with an emphasis on
transitions. The only issues, especially if you are working with web based
applications is the font options. 

There is only so much you can do with half dozen standard internal fonts you
will find on every computer/browser as even the most fancy CSS has it
limitations...and just downloading font images is not the answer if you
application is going international.

I have been working with this coding to allow a wider range of fonts to be
deployed but there has to be a judicious trade off in performance and there
is a limited set of size options. 

http://www.960development.com/how-to-write-cross-browser-font-face-syntax/

Jim



-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2011 3:35 AM
To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com; dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com
Subject: [dba-Tech] Windows 8, Metro and modern UI

Hi all

The ideas and early screenshots seem more promising than I first thought:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zqGXWnYe_U

http://www.winrumors.com/windows-8-metro-ui-welcome-screen-and-ribbon-screen
shots-leak/
http://www.winrumors.com/windows-8s-real-metro-ui-is-immersive-tablet-experi
ence/
http://www.winrumors.com/windows-8-immersive-tablet-tile-ui-and-pdf-reader-r
evealed/
http://www.winrumors.com/new-windows-8-screenshots-leak-including-updated-wa
llpaper/

Based on the ideas of Metro as it is (the UI of Windows Phone 7), the design
principles of this is very clever reading:

  Clean, Light, Open and Fast
  Alive in Motion
  Celebrate Typography
  Content, Not Chrome
  Authentically Digital

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows_phone/b/wpdev/archive/2011/02/16/from-tra
nsportation-to-pixels.aspx 

which also might indicate which direction future UIs will follow. It should
be a good inspiration for design of UI for your own apps as well!

/gustav


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