visual design

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...

Link Removed Device Family resolution break points In porting your phone app to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), one of the main challenges you’ll face is coming up with reasonable visual designs for the wide variety of devices and form factors supported by UWP. The advantage of taking...

Hi, Ive had a problem when installing full glass themes in the past with the pop out window in programs remaining non transparent or not taking the full glass effect of the theme. Does anyone know why this is and how to fix it so it goes transparent like the rest of the theme? And there is the...

Karthik Bharathy joins Scott on Azure Friday to teach him about Power Apps! You'll see how quickly you can create an app and connect it to the cloud using PowerApps. This is PowerApps 101. Link Removed Continue reading...

Designing an app isn’t about patterns or controls—it’s about creating a great experience for your users, every time. While you’re designing with the optimal user experience (UX) in mind, you also have to think about using color effectively, implementing usable controls, and understanding what...

Hi everyone. I’m Albert, and I lead the Design Team in the Operating Systems Group at Microsoft. First time poster, long time reader, be gentle. Our team designs for Windows phones, tablets, and PCs; for services, such as the Store, accounts, and MSN; for Xbox; and also for emerging experiences...

i'm Talking about windows 10 shape/looks, changing the shape of windows will give the more advantage to Windows 10, all you SHOULD have to make the shape pretty cute like windows 7, and also change the windows 10 wallpapers and background colors into cute and pretty shape (present shape doesn't...

Hello, When i go to personalize i am not given the option to 'change window glass colors' but only to change individual elements color. I am referring to http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/change-the-colors-on-your-computer?v=t Many thanks for your help HP Pavilion dv9750ej...

Exactly what the titles says. I started to notice a change with the clock every now and then. I finally concluded that the clock does not change during sleep, restart, or shutdown. My computer goes to sleep often, and when it wakes up from sleep, the time is the same as when it was prior to...

Hello, anyone know if it is possible to get a text only Win7 taskbar? I just want to remove the small icons next to the window title text. Example: http://i.imgur.com/9toaf.png So Chrome and Explorer should look like Steam.

When I select anything on the desktop or in folders it is XP style or Grey on the outside. :computer:

Hello, I was hoping someone here could help me with a problem I encountered earlier this afternoon, since I couldn't seem to find this particular issue anywhere after about an hour of Googling.After rebooting my computer, I found myself unable to get past the login screen. Windows boots...

Hi. I am working on a small and fast GUI wrapper for game and tool development. It has been a while that i worked with the win32 api. Everything works fine except of the displayed window elements. As you can see in the attached picture, the text looks like Win 3.x ^^. I applied a manifest...

Is there already a way, or will there be a way in the near future to style the visual style (Link Removed)? That, and the Start Menu are the only two things holding me back from upgrading...

So, this morning my computer had to go through startup repair but when my computer rebooted afterwards, everything was classic XP style. Ever since this morning I've been unable to change it back to my custom visual styles like Appows Nite and Leopard OSX. I've tried going through performance...

Good day everyone! I already used the UXtheme Patcher but visual styles are still not working please help me about it

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 :)

Just purchased Windows blinds , Always thought "Stardock" made junk but am very impressed with skin studio 7 . Its almost perfect ....but not 100 %. Ok , my question is .... Can i start changing .dlls like you can do normally when creating a VS ( visual style.) I'm under the impression that...

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Hi, I'm new here and hoping that someone might be able to point me in the right direction. I currently use XP but I am interested in upgrading to 7. I have spent dozens of hours researching Win 7 online, but my big questions do not appear to have easily found answers. (1) Do all menus in...