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0 pointscom2kid2y ago0 comments

> Windows 7 could be called the pinnacle of the use of Frutiger Aero in UI design when Apple already started to move away and embrace material design.

Windows Media Center was the origins of the Metro UI, Windows Phone 7 was the industries 21st century intro to a typography first flat design.

Sadly the good design aspects of Windows Phone 7 mostly got forgotten about by the time Windows 8 came along, IMHO it is because WP7 had a small dedicated design team compared to whatever large group I imagine did Windows 8.

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pjmlp2y ago

Plus Windows 8 with Sinofskys .NET hate, decided to go back to the original plan of improving COM, which could have been a good idea, if the execution hasn't been so tragically performed.

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0 pointscom2kid2y ago0 comments

> Windows 7 could be called the pinnacle of the use of Frutiger Aero in UI design when Apple already started to move away and embrace material design.

Windows Media Center was the origins of the Metro UI, Windows Phone 7 was the industries 21st century intro to a typography first flat design.

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pjmlp2y ago

Plus Windows 8 with Sinofskys .NET hate, decided to go back to the original plan of improving COM, which could have been a good idea, if the execution hasn't been so tragically performed.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse