Windows 8 UI
Index of UX guidelines for Windows Store apps (Windows)
Use this index to quickly find the user experience (UX) guidelines that can help you create a great Windows Store app. If you haven't already, you should start by reading Making great Windows Store apps and Planning Windows Store apps. Download
Also sharing couple sites where you can download Windows 8 UI
Download Full Windows 8 GUI Theme pack (metro style, with editable source files)
Good and Bad about the Windows 8 User Interface:
Metro UI:-
The good
Personally, I love the Metro UI. It’s such a ballsy move to trash everything and start over, that one can only tip one’s hat for Microsoft. Well plaid, sir. Well plaid. … Oh, and the thing even works!
One of my personal favorites is how the applications become much more than just the traditional “islands” (*cough-iOS-cough*). In Windows 8 they become part of the OS itself. Install say, Twitter client and it integrates itself at the OS level as a way of sharing things, much like in Android. Or how the People application (or “hub?”) becomes part of every application that does something with your contacts – Sync it with your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google accounts and BAM, you have all the information from those, syndicated into one pool of knowledge. Click the person in your instant messaging thread and you get instantly their information, latest tweets, email address and even mail address. Want to send him an email? Just click the email address and you’re set. It’s all really fluid, powerful and effortless, and most of all, not driven through “islands” of applications. Now, everything seems connected and speaks the same language, and that just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
The bad
The nasty thing about Windows 8 is, and there’s no way around it, the fact it inevitably will be the bastard son of the old and the new. The whole industry can’t just simply hop into Metro overnight, so in the foreseeable future there will be some mix’n’match going on, which probably will confuse users. However, Microsoft is already enforcing Metro as de facto Windows UX – The only way you can get your app to to the Windows Store is if you go Metro.
Read more in the Source
Index of UX guidelines for Windows Store apps (Windows)
Use this index to quickly find the user experience (UX) guidelines that can help you create a great Windows Store app. If you haven't already, you should start by reading Making great Windows Store apps and Planning Windows Store apps. Download
Also sharing couple sites where you can download Windows 8 UI
Download Full Windows 8 GUI Theme pack (metro style, with editable source files)
Good and Bad about the Windows 8 User Interface:
Metro UI:-
Personally, I love the Metro UI. It’s such a ballsy move to trash everything and start over, that one can only tip one’s hat for Microsoft. Well plaid, sir. Well plaid. … Oh, and the thing even works!
One of my personal favorites is how the applications become much more than just the traditional “islands” (*cough-iOS-cough*). In Windows 8 they become part of the OS itself. Install say, Twitter client and it integrates itself at the OS level as a way of sharing things, much like in Android. Or how the People application (or “hub?”) becomes part of every application that does something with your contacts – Sync it with your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google accounts and BAM, you have all the information from those, syndicated into one pool of knowledge. Click the person in your instant messaging thread and you get instantly their information, latest tweets, email address and even mail address. Want to send him an email? Just click the email address and you’re set. It’s all really fluid, powerful and effortless, and most of all, not driven through “islands” of applications. Now, everything seems connected and speaks the same language, and that just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
The bad
The nasty thing about Windows 8 is, and there’s no way around it, the fact it inevitably will be the bastard son of the old and the new. The whole industry can’t just simply hop into Metro overnight, so in the foreseeable future there will be some mix’n’match going on, which probably will confuse users. However, Microsoft is already enforcing Metro as de facto Windows UX – The only way you can get your app to to the Windows Store is if you go Metro.
Read more in the Source
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