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This UI they are pushing with Metro (or whatever it's called now) is horrendous. Has nobody at Microsoft ever read a design book?

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untog|13 years ago

Seriously? Metro (/Modern, whatever) has been almost universally praised by designers. You're entitled to your own opinion on it, but suggesting that no-one has read a design book is a bizarre statement.

adjwilli|13 years ago

Metro is interesting for its originality and almost complete lack of skeuomorphic flourishes. The problem with it though is that everything looks alike and nothing analogous. They've even eliminated drop shadows and depth-implying gradients from the interface. While those may be skeuomorphic in the broadest sense, because our vision expects depth, they provide the user by functional signifiers. Metro, in its deviant haste, went too far to the other aesthetic extreme.

dmix|13 years ago

I don't know... this UI would scare my mom away from using her phone: http://i.imgur.com/Sbh9x.png

jsolson|13 years ago

I'm curious what core principle of design you feel they've violated that they'd have gotten right by having "ever read a design book".

What do you find so objectively appalling about Metro?

jwoah12|13 years ago

Care to elaborate? From what I've seen, the UI has gotten pretty good marks in general.

sukuriant|13 years ago

What does this have to do with the SDK being available?