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

Gustav Brock Gustav at cactus.dk
Tue Apr 5 05:35:25 CDT 2011


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-screenshots-leak/
http://www.winrumors.com/windows-8s-real-metro-ui-is-immersive-tablet-experience/
http://www.winrumors.com/windows-8-immersive-tablet-tile-ui-and-pdf-reader-revealed/
http://www.winrumors.com/new-windows-8-screenshots-leak-including-updated-wallpaper/

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-transportation-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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