Microsoft has been listening, and Windows 11’s Start Menu is finally getting the user-friendly makeover longtime users have been waiting for. In a bid to address nagging complaints and streamline productivity, a redesigned Start Menu is currently in testing across Insider preview builds. Let’s...
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For more than three decades, the Start Menu has anchored the Windows desktop, offering users a familiar gateway to apps, files, and essential controls. Yet, Microsoft’s cyclical compulsion to reinvent this iconic feature has become a running joke—and a recurring pain point—in the Windows...
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The unveiling of a reimagined Start menu in Windows 11 signals another bold step in Microsoft’s quest to redefine user interaction with its iconic operating system. The Start menu, an ever-present symbol of the Windows experience since its debut in Windows 95, has undergone periodic...
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It seems to me that intuitive UI went the way of the dodo with the advent of flat, minimalistic UI. Windows 8's Metro UI, Windows 10's Fluent design, Android's Material design, etc., are featureless and indistinct. The brain has spent its entire existence processing the visible world in three...
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There are plenty of well-designed apps out there. Often what distinguishes a great Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app from a good one is the small touches, like animations and audio cues. This post will provide guidance on some of the subtle nuances that can help you take your app to the next...
The world loves emoji. What a strange phenomenon, right? They’re a whole new language. Descriptive metaphors packed into magical little glyphs. This week, the Windows 10 Anniversary Update delivered a breadth of optimized features to Windows customers worldwide. Among them is a new emoji...
In the past several posts, we have covered user interface (UI) design concepts such as typography, visual cues, and design thinking. In today’s blog, however, we will look at a topic that has much less to do with solving UI design problems and much more to do with solving user experience (UX)...
Conference season has finally caught up to our Channel 9 producers I think. Here are a select 13 videos from last week. Need more? Well remember you can view Ignite (http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015) and Build (Link Removed) on-demand now too... :)
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The technologies of computer security are based on Link Removed due to 404 Error. As security is not necessarily the primary goal of most computer applications, designing a program with security in mind often imposes restrictions on that program's...