Microsoft.com New Design Preview • Hacker News Board

Re: Microsoft.com New Design Preview

#11

Post by zackham » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 10:58 PM UTC

Really nice support of different browser sizes. Resize your browser from wide to really narrow to check it out.

Re: Microsoft.com New Design Preview

#12

Post by bicknergseng » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 10:59 PM UTC

curiousfiddler wrote: post #6

Looks neat, uncluttered and peppy! But what about the favicon? That is so 1990!

Especially when an awesome fav seems easy for those guys. I guess they probably don't want to use the Windows one because it's only one of their products.

Re: Microsoft.com New Design Preview

#13

Post by voltagex_ » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 11:04 PM UTC

zackham wrote: post #11

Really nice support of different browser sizes. Resize your browser from wide to really narrow to check it out.

Any idea how that's working? I've never seen image resizing work that well!

Re: Microsoft.com New Design Preview

#14

Post by nakedgremlin » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 11:08 PM UTC

That is an impressive adaptive site design update.

A couple of things I love about this is (1) the elegance of the menu toggle to top in the small (mobile-size) view and (2) the slideshow control appearance on small view and adaptation to breadcrumb implementation on large view. Quite elegant and appropriate for each environment.

Of course, it is sad that the experience is rarely consistent when you start digging deeper into the site.

Re: Microsoft.com New Design Preview

#15

Post by waiwai933 » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 11:09 PM UTC

derpmeister wrote: post #10

That's the squarest site ever! I take it IE still doesn't support rounded corners?

IE9 and IE10 both support rounded corners, but honestly speaking, I think the design they have would be worse with rounded corners.

Re: Microsoft.com New Design Preview

#16

Post by mintplant » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 11:12 PM UTC

uvTwitch wrote: post #5

It's taken a long while, but Michaelsoft are finally getting their shit together. Well Done!

Sorry, Michaelsoft? Was that an intentional inside joke?

Re: Microsoft.com New Design Preview

#17

Post by metrop0219 » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 11:13 PM UTC

nakedgremlin wrote: post #14

That is an impressive adaptive site design update. A couple of things I love about this is (1) the elegance of the menu toggle to top in the small (mobile-size) view and (2) the slideshow control appearance on small view and adaptation to breadcrumb implementation on large view. Quite elegant and appropriate for each environment. Of course, it is sad that the experience is rarely consistent when you start digging dee…

Yeah I think it's just a home page preview

Re: Microsoft.com New Design Preview

#18

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 11:13 PM UTC

curiousfiddler wrote: post #6

Looks neat, uncluttered and peppy! But what about the favicon? That is so 1990!

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Re: Microsoft.com New Design Preview

#19

Post by mc32 » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 11:15 PM UTC

waiwai933 wrote: post #15

derpmeister wrote: post #10

That's the squarest site ever! I take it IE still doesn't support rounded corners?

IE9 and IE10 both support rounded corners, but honestly speaking, I think the design they have would be worse with rounded corners.

Specially taking Metro into consideration which is very much about right angles.

Re: Microsoft.com New Design Preview

#20

Post by toddmorey » Thu, Jun 28, 2012, 11:16 PM UTC

I don't know, I just think you can take sparse so far it becomes soulless. Simple, clean design can still be emotive. This isn't. The stock art humans make this feel more like a Big Oil annual report. (And that Products menu is a little painful!) All that said, this is leaps and bounds beyond their current homepage.