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Just beautiful. Even after all these years Microsoft's UI paradigm is still pretty much what I think a computer should look like. Sure we have new visual style

Just beautiful. Even after all these years Microsoft's UI paradigm is still pretty much what I think a computer should look like. Sure we have new visual styles and high resolution now, but the core design language is still pretty much the same. It's really hard to improve on it. Even on mobile it just works. Most of the attempts at more modern newer things feel unpredictable, or very limited, or they hide everything behind shortcuts and gestures and are near unusable unless you use the program all day every day and know everything. Android is pretty good, maybe my favorite os to use, but a lot of the best parts are similar to this just adapted for touch.

dkjaudyeqooe 4y ago
Win 98's UI isn't very pretty (IMHO) but at least it's spare and relatively clean. Also it doesn't take a lot of resources to render. Compare with MS's more recent efforts. Personally I'm clinging to macOS 10.14 for as long as I can. More recent iterations have very much lost their way.
- eternityforest 4y ago
  Aesthetically it's a bit vintage for non-nostalgia purposes, but IMHO the issues are purely things like fonts and colors and rounding, layout and behavior is excellent. I'm not sure I could make it look any better. It's a pretty nice theme considering it was meant for VGA and seems to have been designed around a more limited set of colors. Plus you'd be seeing it on a beige monitor with a wide bezel, with a full size beige keyboard, likely on a desk that also had a note pad, pens, and stationary. I'm guessing it also was meant to look somewhat obviously techno rather than the appliancelike looks of new stuff, because the fact that computers existed was a big deal and they probably wanted to highlight that. I think they did a decent job with the context and what I imagine they wanted to communicate.

dkjaudyeqooe 4y ago

Win 98's UI isn't very pretty (IMHO) but at least it's spare and relatively clean. Also it doesn't take a lot of resources to render. Compare with MS's more recent efforts. Personally I'm clinging to macOS 10.14 for as long as I can. More recent iterations have very much lost their way.

eternityforest 4y ago
Aesthetically it's a bit vintage for non-nostalgia purposes, but IMHO the issues are purely things like fonts and colors and rounding, layout and behavior is excellent. I'm not sure I could make it look any better. It's a pretty nice theme considering it was meant for VGA and seems to have been designed around a more limited set of colors. Plus you'd be seeing it on a beige monitor with a wide bezel, with a full size beige keyboard, likely on a desk that also had a note pad, pens, and stationary. I'm guessing it also was meant to look somewhat obviously techno rather than the appliancelike looks of new stuff, because the fact that computers existed was a big deal and they probably wanted to highlight that. I think they did a decent job with the context and what I imagine they wanted to communicate.