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Even worse actually. text user interfaces had contrasting backgrounds between different controls. It took me a while to learn the large-text-as-a-tab style in M
by vsskanth 6y ago
Even worse actually. text user interfaces had contrasting backgrounds between different controls. It took me a while to learn the large-text-as-a-tab style in Metro UI.
It's not just the flatness that irritates me, there is such low information density, so much white space and large text sizes it feels like using a blown up tablet app.
- userbinator 6y agoit feels like using a blown up tablet app. That's because that was precisely what it was intended as --- the idea was to use the same UI on both desktop and mobile, and unfortunately they picked the latter instead of the former to build upon. The former would've resulted in something more similar to WinCE.
- ComputerGuru 6y agoI think WinCE fell victim to the technology of the time. I believe today’s higher precision and lower effort capacitive touch screens would have reduced much of the issues that plagued its usability with its crappy resistive touch screens and styli.