Nice concept but it's too similar to Google's design feel
I agree. I looks very much like Android ICS on a different color scheme... very much like Google's web-apps
Beautiful Windows 8 concept
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Re: Beautiful Windows 8 concept
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gnome is probably more popular. My believe is that KDE is much more superior, at least on the surface. KDE is highly skinable, I'd say Gnome is too. There are thousands of various themes available and this one would be lost between them. Windows is skinable as well, and you have hundreds and thousands of themes for it as well. So you can do this as a hobby, mostly for a portfolio.
Or sell it as a theme and make money off it.
Can't remember the last time I payed for a theme. Especially since they look great on a screenshot but often turn out irritating in use.
Re: Beautiful Windows 8 concept
#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gnome is probably more popular. My believe is that KDE is much more superior, at least on the surface. KDE is highly skinable, I'd say Gnome is too. There are thousands of various themes available and this one would be lost between them. Windows is skinable as well, and you have hundreds and thousands of themes for it as well. So you can do this as a hobby, mostly for a portfolio.
Or sell it as a theme and make money off it.
If making money with linux (on the customer side) would be that easy there would be more usable and good looking software.
But asking money for end user software is something you really don't do on linux so there's no really well designed software.
Re: Beautiful Windows 8 concept
#44Reminds me of LiteStep.
I used to love Litestep. You know if there was an OS that took the lead in making customization and skinning accessible, it would be quite a great step forward. Instead we have third party programs and customizations that don't quite cut it.
Re: Beautiful Windows 8 concept
#45Really nice, though it begs the question; seeing as you can't meaningfully affect Windows 8's design without joining Microsoft on the relevant team(s), why not apply your design skills to the Linux desktop, either Gnome or KDE (I don't know which is more popular as I'm not really a Linux user). Improving the Linux GUI's presentation is always a good thing in terms of improving end-user adoption.
Being a Windows mockup doesn't mean Gnome or KDE can't take inspiration from it. :) Actually when this was first made (a few months ago) it was just an experiment to see how Metro styles and concepts could be applied to the desktop. Back then the Win8 builds were still all using Aero and there was no hint of a new style, so in retrospect it got quite a few things right.
I saw a KDE5 mockup some months ago (Back in January I think).
It looks like this mockup, look:
http://kde-look.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/148657-1.png
Looks very "metro" to me.
Re: Beautiful Windows 8 concept
#46Really nice, though it begs the question; seeing as you can't meaningfully affect Windows 8's design without joining Microsoft on the relevant team(s), why not apply your design skills to the Linux desktop, either Gnome or KDE (I don't know which is more popular as I'm not really a Linux user). Improving the Linux GUI's presentation is always a good thing in terms of improving end-user adoption.
Would be a great theme for Ubuntu or something similar, indeed. Ps, I'm not the designer - just thought of this when I saw the Windows 8 logo concept on HN
Elegant Brit is the most similar, and is my favorite set of themes.
http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/?content=74553
Re: Beautiful Windows 8 concept
#47Beautiful design, horrible UX. (I know, I know. Suddenly everyone on HN is a UX designer. But hear me out.) I count eight distinct types of system font in there, all denoting different data/functionality. Semiotically there are no signifiers other than the size, weight and position of the text. It's the closest thing you can get to mystery meat navigation whilst still providing words. Look at current incarnations of…
Reminds me of the recent (horrible, imo) Google redesigns.
Re: Beautiful Windows 8 concept
#48Reminds me of LiteStep.
I used to love Litestep. You know if there was an OS that took the lead in making customization and skinning accessible, it would be quite a great step forward. Instead we have third party programs and customizations that don't quite cut it.
KDE is famous for making everything customisable. But the market for skinning software isn't that big - most people will never go looking for that feature. So it's much more important that it looks good by default.
Re: Beautiful Windows 8 concept
#49Yawn, this was featured on the verge ages ago http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2822891/windows-desktop-ui...
Your unit of measurement (an "age") must be no more than 9 weeks, since you used the plural and it has only been 18. Yet it sounds like an impressive duration. Must be like dog-years.
Re: Beautiful Windows 8 concept
#50This is one of those situations where the UI is gorgeous but the UX is awful for a certain demographic. And that's nothing against the designer - he created a UI design, not a UX model, and I think he did a good job on it. From a UX perspective, however, this is just going to be awful for anyone who is a power user or who is concerned with productivity. I'm both and, if I was forced into using something like that for…
Is there a rule that OS desktop UX must be one-size-fits-all?