ui design

Notifications Visualizer is a Link Removed that helps developers design Link Removed. The app provides instant visual previews of your tile while editing, similar to Visual Studio’s XAML editor/design view. The app also checks for errors, ensuring you create a valid tile payload. Below is a...

MSDN magazine has released a special Windows 10 issue. The issue spans a large number of topics from Visual Studio tooling to game development to user experience to notifications. If you don’t get the print magazine, don’t worry, all the articles are online for free. Here is the complete list...

In this on-location special for Defrag Tools, Andrew Richards and Chad Beeder invade Raymond Chen's office. Raymond is a 23yr veteran of Microsoft, who's worked on everything from MS-DOS to the Windows 10 UI. We talk about his Blog and Link Removed Old New Thing, Security Reports on the wrong...

Windows 10's new Start Screen is completely customizable, but will take some time to give it some personal organization. read more Continue reading...

My name is Samer Sawaya – I’m a Senior Program Manager Lead on Windows Feedback, part of the Data and Fundamentals Team that Gabe Aul leads. Many of you have asked about what we do with all of the feedback that we receive in the Windows Insider Program, and how we’re able to use it all to inform...

In the right bottom corner is the windows 10 icon. I want to hide that. (It looks too much like thunderbirds you-got-mail-icon, which is driving me crazy!) :confused: Obviously I tried this method: http://lifehacker.com/how-to-hide-the-get-windows-10-icon-from-your-taskbar-1708536452 which...

Printing has been a key role of computing since the beginning of the personal computer. While users have moved more and more towards smartphones and tablets as their primary computing device, many critical business functions, or common activities, still rely on printed output. This session will...

Starting today at Link Removed in San Francisco, we’re going deep on details around Windows 10. This morning, Link Removed described our goal to bring Windows 10 to a billion devices over the next two-three years, and showed off a number of innovations that will help us reach more individual...

This guest blog post is the first of a 3-part series written by Windows MVP Jani Nevalainen. Please see the original post Link Removed, and stay tuned for Parts 2 and 3 coming soon. I believe that games are still one of the most fun ways to get to know a new programming language. Since there...

Hello all, Is there a way to make the slider button (I dont know what the real name is) on the right side darker? Much darker. It's almost the same as the field it slides in and is very hard to see. Is Win8 like this? Thanks for any help.

With reports that*the Metro name will no longer be used by Microsoft for the UI in Windows 8, Windows Phone, and Xbox, some are wondering how Microsoft will get themselves out of this situation. Source: Yahoo! News

I nearly dismissed this article as a propaganda piece until I got to the part of why Apple lost their business. I've seen a number of posts where people "in the business" are predicting Windows 8 to not make in roads into the enterprise. With regard to desktops, I somewhat agree with that...

There are lot of discussion about the upcoming Microsoft Windows 8 on the web. Leaks and screenshots suggests that Windows 8 will have totally different UI than Windows 7 and it looked pretty eye catching to me.I searched for Windows 8 transformation pack for Windows 7 and found many and some of...

hi guys im wondering where most of the themes have gone? I used to have one that was all black.. started with Ae i think.... i was just wondering if this is coming back or not im sure its been done for a reason i know but im just curious :)

This video covers the basics of using depth data from Kinect. You may find it easier to follow along by downloading the Link Removed. [Link Removed] Depth data overview [Link Removed] Initializing the Kinect Runtime [Link Removed] Using the depth data to create an image [Link Removed] Using...

This video covers the basics of skeletal tracking using the Kinect sensor. You may find it easier to follow along by downloading the Link Removed. [Link Removed] Skeleton Tracking API [Link Removed] Understanding Skeleton Quality and Joint data [Link Removed] Setup skeleton tracking [Link...

Supersite ... Source: Paul Thurott's SuperSite for Windows

But are icons more effective? Source: Yahoo! News

This week, Microsoft revealed a little of what to expect from the next Windows operating system. With its Windows Phone look and touch - literally - and tiles everywhere, it will be a major refresh, but there's a still a number of unanswered questions. Here are my top five: Link Removed

SAN FRANCISCO—Microsoft Corp. Windows president Steven Sinofsky previewed a touchscreen version of the operating system that can work on tablets, offering a glimpse of his company’s response to Apple Inc.’s iPad. Windows 8 resembles Microsoft’s software for mobile phones and uses “tiles,” rather...