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Except not at all. This has a very different look and feel. Everything with a modern design is not a copy of Metro. Windows wasn't the first to do flat designs

Except not at all. This has a very different look and feel. Everything with a modern design is not a copy of Metro. Windows wasn't the first to do flat designs, and most designs (like this) that people say look like metro don't resemble it.

tmister 13y ago
But it is Microsoft who made it trendy among web designers and even influenced Apple. Ironically this trend started by a company which was remarked as "tasteless" by Steve Jobs.
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- caryhartline 13y ago
  There really wasn't one company that made flat design trendy. Microsoft wanted to use web technologies as part of their main OS and flat design was already popular. Microsoft went with the flow like everyone else and they didn't set any trends.
toyg 13y ago
There is a reason people say some designs look like metro: because they do. To the untrained eye, Helvetica Neue and Segoe look very similar; text-heavy flat designs using very similar fonts look very similar. Microsoft might not have been the first to bring this sort of concept to life (they weren't), but they certainly popularised it by virtue of their mainstream reach and their dramatic departure from previous design choices. I'm not saying Apple hasn't improved the concept with gradients, shadows etc, but denying that Metro was a big influence on the iOS redesign is just unrealistic.
- threeseed 13y ago
  Sorry but nobody who has actually spent time with WM7 and iOS7 can possibly think they are related. The iOS7 design is about layering, transparency and minimalism. WM7 is far more about its distinctive rectangular, high contrast design.
  - toyg 13y ago
    When people talk about Metro, they usually talk about Windows 8. I'm not denying that there are differences; what I'm saying is that any Joe Average, asked whether iOS7 looks like Metro or iOS6 or any other OS before them, would say Metro. There is nothing wrong in admitting influences in art, complete originality is a just a silly myth.

tmister 13y ago

But it is Microsoft who made it trendy among web designers and even influenced Apple. Ironically this trend started by a company which was remarked as "tasteless" by Steve Jobs.

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caryhartline 13y ago
There really wasn't one company that made flat design trendy. Microsoft wanted to use web technologies as part of their main OS and flat design was already popular. Microsoft went with the flow like everyone else and they didn't set any trends.

toyg 13y ago

There is a reason people say some designs look like metro: because they do. To the untrained eye, Helvetica Neue and Segoe look very similar; text-heavy flat designs using very similar fonts look very similar. Microsoft might not have been the first to bring this sort of concept to life (they weren't), but they certainly popularised it by virtue of their mainstream reach and their dramatic departure from previous design choices. I'm not saying Apple hasn't improved the concept with gradients, shadows etc, but denying that Metro was a big influence on the iOS redesign is just unrealistic.

threeseed 13y ago
Sorry but nobody who has actually spent time with WM7 and iOS7 can possibly think they are related. The iOS7 design is about layering, transparency and minimalism. WM7 is far more about its distinctive rectangular, high contrast design.
- toyg 13y ago
  When people talk about Metro, they usually talk about Windows 8. I'm not denying that there are differences; what I'm saying is that any Joe Average, asked whether iOS7 looks like Metro or iOS6 or any other OS before them, would say Metro. There is nothing wrong in admitting influences in art, complete originality is a just a silly myth.