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In this issue, the editor will bring you about how to carry out the UI design of Windows 8. The article is rich in content and analyzes and narrates it from a professional point of view. I hope you can get something after reading this article.

On Sept. 14, 2011, a major event happened in the industry, when Microsoft unveiled a small part of the expected Windows 8 at the Build conference. As the operating system with the most users on the planet, every major version of Windows is the focus of the industry and attracts the attention of the media.

Judging from what has been disclosed so far, Microsoft seems to be in a design paradox: on the one hand, he knows the importance of Metro UI to its overall strategy (stylish, cool, mobile, these concepts are lacking in Microsoft's image); on the other hand, it is difficult to give up the traditional style of Windows.

Metro UI is almost completely different from the traditional style, and Windows's current style has been going on for decades, whether it works or not, at least users are used to it. And Metro UI? Despite the applause, Microsoft will be more or less skeptical about the sluggish sales of the Windows Phone. It's new and cool, but do consumers pay for it?

Such a situation finally led to the semi-finished product we see at present, although it is only a Preview, but ideally, it is a semi-finished product, the result of compromise.

In my opinion, this is not so much Windows 8 as Windows 7.5, which makes a lot of compromises in the overall UI style, treating Metro UI independently as an add-on.

To some extent, this can please old users, and it seems to be a compromise. Old users can continue their traditional interface, and new users can use Metro UI. However, compromise and compromise, like social improvement, address the symptoms rather than the root causes, and will always bring more new problems while solving a problem.

Switching between Metro app and traditional programs

The style of Metro is completely different from the current application. Let's imagine a scenario, on the one hand, there is a Metro-style mail program, while the background is running Outlook. How can users adapt to these two completely different programs?

When you use Metro for two hours and get used to the setting of what you can share with a mouse drag, how will users feel when you suddenly go back to the old program and drag the mouse and nothing happens? There is also a visual gap can not be ignored, such a completely different things, rashly mixed together, obviously will cause the user's confusion and awkwardness.

Design problems of Metro app itself

Throughout the style of Metro UI, there are huge characters and a large number of brightly colored blocks. On the mobile phone, due to the small screen area, the visual impact can be said to be just right.

But if you switch to the PC's 27-inch screen, you can imagine the shock of huge characters and bright colors when they suddenly switch to your eyes in the middle of the night.

From last night's screenshot, Microsoft's own application works well, but you can't expect all third parties to have professional interface designers, which will always be a problem.

Interesting questions brought by Metro LiveTile

LiveTile is actually a good design, using small squares to refresh regularly and display some information, which is naturally very beautiful on Metro UI phones with * interface, but what about on Windows 8?

For example, you install a stock software that supports LivetTile, so you put it on Metro's Launcher and switch it out to Word.

Wait, Metro is hidden. What's the use of LiveTile? At least in the current screenshot, I can't see the answer to this question. In fact, there will be no second answer except to write another set of things and put them in the notification area.

Windows 8 = Windows 7.5 + Metro application

The above questions are just a few problems with Windows 8, and the design of Metro UI is very unique, which makes it difficult to coexist with other designs.

In current Windows 8, Microsoft combines it with the traditional interface in an inexplicable way, turning the entire Metro layer into an application, a Launcher, rather than integrating into the system.

Such trickery is a viable compromise, but I am still deeply worried that the experience that this barbaric practice may bring is fragmented, the conflict between the two opposing styles, and may even kill the fledgling Metro UI.

Of course, the current Windows 8 is still in a very early stage, and the overall design may change. But in this big version, whether it's Tablet or PC, I don't think there's going to be a deep integration of Metro UI.

If Metro is acceptable to the public, then the next big version may be Microsoft's real "Windows 8".

The above is the editor for you to share how to carry out the UI design of Windows 8, if you happen to have similar doubts, you might as well refer to the above analysis to understand. If you want to know more about it, you are welcome to follow the industry information channel.

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