It really is beautiful. If I didnt know it was going to annoy me to no end like all windows apps do, I would try it. Very good effort.
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#22Elegant (and I love the volume slider) but :
- too much screen estate lost on a window title bar ?
- on date/time as well
- how does the "invisible" taskbar look when a window is maximized ?
- vertical scrollbar too narrow ?
And where is my beloved quick-launch bar ? ;)
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#23I saw this a few months ago (i cant remember where) and i'm sure there were a whole load more screenshots to go with it. While i'd love to see this and it is undeniably beautiful, its not really what i'd call a practical solution. This makes me wonder, is it only beautiful because its a concept? It only looks so good because its free from practical restriction, what would it look like if it was made into a real world…
http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2822891/windows-desktop-ui...
Thanks for posting! Stunning visuals, really love this design.
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#24Nice concept but it's too similar to Google's design feel
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#25Elegant (and I love the volume slider) but : - too much screen estate lost on a window title bar ? - on date/time as well - how does the "invisible" taskbar look when a window is maximized ? - vertical scrollbar too narrow ? And where is my beloved quick-launch bar ? ;)
Title bar has quite a lot empty space but doesn't that contributes to the whole UI looking clean and beautiful...
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#26Really 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.
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.
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#27There's a good reason why the Zune "design" (which this "concept" is copying) is not used more often. It's a usability nightmare.
My problem is that, since I've never used a Zune, I have no frame of reference with which to understand your comment. Can you elaborate?
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#28Looks like ChromeOS Aura:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/Chrome_OS_21.0...
I still like my 90's plinth buttons - at least I know which is a button and which is a piece of headline text.
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#29Really stunning visuals, clean and usable. But one thing bothers me and that is that it will never in reality be as clean, crisp and visually consistent as in the screenshots.
Take http://img607.imageshack.us/img607/6697/explorer2.jpg for example, the problem there is that in the screenshot it's all aligned and nicely ordered but i can't help noticing he only displays landscape pictures. Same goes for several other concept screens.
I don't want to break down his work but it's just that there are many great concepts that I would love to see come to reality but once they have it isn't all that like I thought it would be.
UI/UX really is hard :)
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#30This 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 my main work, I'd end up scrolling and clicking my way to insanity trying to accomplish a task. There's so much white space that it would drive everyone who already knows computers well crazy. The low information density - it's just maddening to someone like me (and probably you as well, since you're on HN).