Creating the Windows 8 User Experience
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- monkeyshine0
Sublocked, that's an interesting perspective. I think that new technology is providing opportunities for more focused content. If that's true, this is a good thing for content providers. How many clients have you had who want websites but don't even consider content until the end...I'm hoping technology forces us to clarify the message before determining the medium.
- Very true - but still, where are we going to be creating this content?sublocked
- animatedgif0
^ Metro app development free, regular desktop app development $500.
- tOki0
^
I think we all just have to adapt and find interesting and exciting ways to leverage the new technologies...a major face is it's true that screen sizes are shrinking in that people are going to mobiles and smaller netbooks etc. That said, in other places they are expanding. Internet enabled TV's which are essentially a 50" screen with tiny PC inside are becoming more ubiquitous and the way we interact with them (xbox kinect etc) means that they are no longer one way devices of consumption but rather just another connected digital touch point.
Things such as the Samsung smart window are an awesome example of where technology in the home is heading - and there will always be a need for applications to be developed, interfaces to be designed, and for content to be formatted and created for these environments.
The the recent Tupac hologram performance at Coachella shows that again it's only a matter of time before these types of technology will start becoming more mainstream and therefore accessible to not just the general public but the creators behind advertising, media and so forth - and then we'll have giant holographic sharks biting our heads off on the street :P
Undoubtedly till the monumental shift occurs though in the way we interact with technology in complex ways, the desktop computer will remain the center of activity for those who need "one device to rule them all". As we've all seen, typing large amounts on mobile devices is difficult - and it's hard to beat the accuracy of a mouse with touch unless you increase the canvas to metres.
- sublocked0
More thoughts on Metro from around the web
- ukit20
monkeyshine, do you end up using the apps a lot? Or mostly regular desktop?
- I use the apps more but this is also not my main work machine.monkeyshine
- monkeyshine0
I've been using Windows 8 for about a month now (both tablet and desktop) and I'm surprised by how quickly I've acclimated to desktop especially.
I work for MS so maybe I'm kool-aid biased but I have high hopes for Windows 8. The design and UX is fresh and forward-thinking (anticipating a non-PC world)...we'll see.
- i_monk0
^ Task Manager is not a major selling point, yet he talks about it for nearly a quarter of the video. Shouldn't there be something else to talk about?
- sublocked0
^ go get a typewriter, unibomber
- MrT0
This makes me want to retreat to a cabin in the woods and weep.
- ETM0
Desktops are a dying interface. 90% of people only need a browser, email client and a Word Processor. For a file system, those people really only need to store their documents, pictures and music/video files. And when cloud becomes more ubiquitous, your files won't ever exist on your devices. The complexities of a file system will be there and you simply upload/download as needed.
Really personal computers will be nothing but thin clients and true operating systems will be for servers.
- Fucken ay, been saying this for years. We'll just have terminal mentality, and they'll be everywhere. Massive central...mikotondria3
- ..CPUs, fat pipes, rendering split between local interpreter chips and mammoth quantum parallel core networks. Yes.mikotondria3
- ukit20
Agreed...people always hate change no matter what
But potential issue could be the weird split between the Metro experience and desktop. Lack of multitasking with Metro apps.
Also the visual design for the desktop isn't exactly impressive:
Having said that I haven't tried Windows 8 yet but those were the issues people kept mentioning.
- ETM0
Regardless, it's the same old, same old.
MS why don't you try something new? You always copy Apple etc.
Wait, you are trying something new, WTF?
- sublocked0
^ Seems like typical MS whiners to me. I have high hopes for it.
- ukit20
Wonder if Windows 8 will actually be a huge disaster for Microsoft...if you read the comments on that post they are 90% negative
- Could be good. It's actual change that people need to get used to.ETM
- There was mostly bad things to say about both the iPhone and iPad when they were first announced.ETM
- And well, look how they transformed the market. Not saying win 8 will totally transform anything.ETM
- But sometimes interesting change comes with resistance.ETM
- ukit20
Anyway Windows 7 (and even the desktop part of Windows 8) has the same "faux realistic" style so are they saying their current OS is dated and cheesy?
- monospaced0
Thought this was kind of funny...is this sentence ignoring OS X?
"Although tablets on other platforms have followed suit, Windows 7 was the first shipping OS to embrace multitouch in the platform."
- The sentence is accurate though. Win 7 shipped with a full suite of multi-touch gestures first.ETM
- Lion was really the official release for multitouch.ETM
- so weird! I was using multi-touch on MBPs back in '08 on an old operating systemmonospaced
- ukit20
Thought this was kind of funny...is that last sentence a shot at Apple?
"In 2006, Windows Vista substantially changed the visual appearance of Windows, introducing the Aero visual style. Aero gave the appearance of highly-rendered glass, light sources, reflections, and other graphically complex textures in the title bars, taskbar, and other system surfaces. These stylistic elements represented the design sensibilities of the time, reflecting the capabilities of the brand-new digital tools used to create and render them. This style of simulating faux-realistic materials (such as glass or aluminum) on the screen looks dated and cheesy now, but at the time, it was very much en vogue."
- LOL. 15 years after XP they jump on the "faux-realistic materials" bandwagon (late), and then date it.monospaced