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I guess it's subjective, but you would be in the minority [1] for thinking Metro UI is a "unicorn vomit/rainbow disaster". [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Met

I guess it's subjective, but you would be in the minority [1] for thinking Metro UI is a "unicorn vomit/rainbow disaster". [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_UI#Response http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_UI#Response

vibrunazo 14y ago
How can you be sure? Your link only have a few select critics, whose opinion are 99% useless. I wanna know what real users think. My own personal anecdote asking a few people about it is closer to unicorn puke than acclamation. But I don't like anecdotes. Are there are quantitative study with a large sample of users' opinions about how Metro looks? I'd be very interested in one. There have been many reports here and there about how people like metro. But without such study, anyone saying it looks "good" or "bad" are just worthless anecdotes. Of course it's subjective, what really matters is what the majority of the target audience thinks.
- hdctambien 14y ago
  I think you have to use WP7 to get past the "unicorn poop" look. To you, looking at the screenshots, you see a mess of a UI. My me, looking at the home screen my my WP7 I see my Fiance, my brother, my Mother and my Best friend and it toggles between their picture and their latest Facebook updates. My phone doesn't look like "unicorn poop" to me. It might to you, though. I imagine Microsoft has data about what people like/dislike about Metro, and they are doubling down on it so the data is probably leaning in the "good" direction.
meepmorp 14y ago
I hate the Metro UI. I hate the live tiles,I hate the way text seems to drift off the edge of the screen; I hate the way it looks, and navigating through it annoyed me. I've only ever seen it on a phone, though, so maybe a tablet would improve things. I'm not a UI expert, so maybe I'm missing something awesome. I am, however, a user of consumer electronics, and as far as that qualifies me to comment, I think it looks like crap and would never buy a Metro UI based product.
- nkerkin 14y ago
  Haters gonna hate. Having used (and developed for) Palm, WM6, Symbian, Android and iOS over the years, I find WP7 to be the most joyful, intuitive OS I have ever used. Have you used WP7 for any amount of time or just seen screenshots? If so, I'm genuinely interested in why you hate it so much. The "text seems to drift" is an excellent UI/Navigation feature, it combines the title of the page AND indicates which tab you are on, rather than having a little row of dots.
cmelbye 14y ago
I think he/she is talking about the screenshots of the new start screen that accompanied the announcement. Personally, I love the current WP7 and I thought that the new screen ditched a lot of the simplicity and looked very busy and unattractive.
- nkerkin 14y ago
  Agreed. The fixed size live tiles differentiated WP7 from the others. Now they just look like android widgets, albeit with more consistent styling.

vibrunazo 14y ago

How can you be sure? Your link only have a few select critics, whose opinion are 99% useless. I wanna know what real users think. My own personal anecdote asking a few people about it is closer to unicorn puke than acclamation. But I don't like anecdotes. Are there are quantitative study with a large sample of users' opinions about how Metro looks? I'd be very interested in one. There have been many reports here and there about how people like metro. But without such study, anyone saying it looks "good" or "bad" are just worthless anecdotes. Of course it's subjective, what really matters is what the majority of the target audience thinks.

hdctambien 14y ago
I think you have to use WP7 to get past the "unicorn poop" look. To you, looking at the screenshots, you see a mess of a UI. My me, looking at the home screen my my WP7 I see my Fiance, my brother, my Mother and my Best friend and it toggles between their picture and their latest Facebook updates. My phone doesn't look like "unicorn poop" to me. It might to you, though. I imagine Microsoft has data about what people like/dislike about Metro, and they are doubling down on it so the data is probably leaning in the "good" direction.

meepmorp 14y ago

I hate the Metro UI. I hate the live tiles,I hate the way text seems to drift off the edge of the screen; I hate the way it looks, and navigating through it annoyed me. I've only ever seen it on a phone, though, so maybe a tablet would improve things. I'm not a UI expert, so maybe I'm missing something awesome. I am, however, a user of consumer electronics, and as far as that qualifies me to comment, I think it looks like crap and would never buy a Metro UI based product.

nkerkin 14y ago
Haters gonna hate. Having used (and developed for) Palm, WM6, Symbian, Android and iOS over the years, I find WP7 to be the most joyful, intuitive OS I have ever used. Have you used WP7 for any amount of time or just seen screenshots? If so, I'm genuinely interested in why you hate it so much. The "text seems to drift" is an excellent UI/Navigation feature, it combines the title of the page AND indicates which tab you are on, rather than having a little row of dots.

cmelbye 14y ago

I think he/she is talking about the screenshots of the new start screen that accompanied the announcement. Personally, I love the current WP7 and I thought that the new screen ditched a lot of the simplicity and looked very busy and unattractive.

nkerkin 14y ago
Agreed. The fixed size live tiles differentiated WP7 from the others. Now they just look like android widgets, albeit with more consistent styling.