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Designers often come up with such kinds of "unsolicited advice", hoping to get noticed by the big companies, and it's actually the first time I see someone succ
by bbx 14y ago
Designers often come up with such kinds of "unsolicited advice", hoping to get noticed by the big companies, and it's actually the first time I see someone succeeding in this approach (which is a good thing I guess).
What strikes me is that he will be working in the Xbox division, which I already consider Microsoft's most coherent and elegant division, marketing-wise.
Andrew Kim has come up with a branding concept, but I wish Microsoft would have also considered approaching the guy behind this Windows UI concept: http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2822891/windows-desktop-ui-concept http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2822891/windows-desktop-ui...
Apart from the fact that it looks gorgeous, I believe it embraced the "flat design"concept in ways that Windows 8 has failed to elaborate.
- dangrossman 14y agoThat's basically a direct rip of the Zune desktop software [1] applied to other apps. Windows Phone distinctly reminds me of the Zune HD UI once you're past the live tiles home screen. If they wanted to do more like that, they would only need to turn to their own people that made it. While Zune failed as a product, its team seemingly inspired everything Microsoft's designed since. 1: http://i.imgur.com/gb2DhNt.jpg http://i.imgur.com/gb2DhNt.jpg
- Tyrant505 14y agoI disagree completely. That looks like an old and dated website and still has loads of unflat.
- dangrossman 14y agoThe Zune software is from 7 years ago, and you can see every element of its design in that blog post (sans-serif typography as UI hierarchy, no title bars, flat minimize/maximize/close buttons, back arrows, neon color bars). It stuck out like a sore thumb against Windows XP and the recently released Windows Vista, yet fits right in with Windows 8 where the exact same elements are used throughout Metro.
- Tyrant505 14y agoIt's cluttered, has lack of whitespace. Round buttons. Horrible grid. Flat does not mean undesigned.
- Gigablah 14y agoYou're missing the point. Whatever nitpicks you have with that design is irrelevant to his speculation that it's the precursor to Microsoft's current UI design language.
- jinushaun 14y agoThe problem with the design of Windows 8 is that "inspired by Zune" gave us a big pile of poop. The Win8 concept from the Verge is a much better application of Metro to Windows than what MS officially came up with.
- ghshephard 14y ago"Designers often come up with such kinds of "unsolicited advice",hoping to get noticed by the big companies" I think "often" is a bit of a stretch, in the last 10 years, I've seen maybe a half-dozen professional design demonstrations like MM. Design is hard work - and good designers are almost always employed at the company of their choice, and, if they aren't, can do design for several hundred dollars an hour. No need to get noticed. What's amazing about MM, is that he's a Design Hacker - instead of writing code to scratch his intellectual and creative itch, he puts designs out there.
- wildranter 14y agoWhat you call unsolicited advice in fact is part of a process to make the world a better place. You see something wrong and right it. Tell the world about, and hope to make a dent I the universe. That's actually a very good way of inflicting change. Because even if you don't dent it, at least you're getting better in the process.
- rprus 14y agoIf a designer did an unofficial rebrand of pornhub and it was nice, we'd for sure hire him. Porn gets no love.