uidesign

When a talented concept designer reimagines Windows as a glossy, translucency-first OS, the result is visually striking — but the work of turning a mood board into a production-ready operating system is a far bigger engineering challenge than a nine‑minute video suggests. The AR 4789 “Windows...

Microsoft’s vision of the PC interface has always centered on the Start menu—a gateway to productivity, entertainment, and daily routines for over a billion users worldwide. With the Windows 11 25H2 update on the horizon, the Start menu is set to undergo one of its biggest changes in recent...

Interest in customizable, dynamic user interfaces for Windows reached a new level of excitement this week, after a prominent Microsoft engineer gave a public sneak peek at a project with the potential to fundamentally change the way many interact with their PCs. On May 22, 2025, Etienne Baudoux...

Microsoft's latest update, Windows 11 KB5055627 (Build 26100.3915), introduces significant performance enhancements to File Explorer, particularly when accessing the "Home" tab. Users have reported noticeably faster launch times, addressing previous concerns about sluggishness in navigating...

Three years. That’s how long the world’s most powerful software company took to fix a digital watch—something we, as a species, perfected somewhere around the time of Napoleon. Yet, in the curious odyssey of Windows 11, the story of the vanishing taskbar clock has emerged as a surprisingly...

Today's Visual Studio Extension is more of a "teach you how to fish" kind of extension as anything. As he does so well, Shemeer NS, of Link Removed, has posted another project where he leverages another Control to create a Visual Studio addin that fits just what he needs, showing you all just...