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Metro is not even out for desktop in its final form and you seem to have accumulated a lot of opinions on it already. :) It is different than what people are us
by barista 14y ago
Metro is not even out for desktop in its final form and you seem to have accumulated a lot of opinions on it already. :) It is different than what people are used to so people are bound to have polarizing views on it.
If you have been following the posts on the building windows blog then you will be able to understand the reasoning behind the design. Please do it. As a software engineer, understanding the design process behind one of the most used pieces of software is very educating.
- Gormo 14y agoI've seen plenty of the Metro interface that's out in the Win8 betas, and I'm expressing an opinion of what I've already seen. I doubt that the final version will likely be different. There seems to be a general trend toward a "sparse, haphazard 2D grid of elements of varying size and shape" UI paradigm, not just in Metro, but on websites and elsewhere, and apart from the more detailed criticisms of what we've seen in Metro, I think this paradigm just doesn't work - it prioritizes static aesthetics over interactive functionality - and Metro, being an instance of this, is essentially broken in concept, not just in implementation.