'Windows 8' prototype 'designed for' UI improvement 'of' Windows 10 '

Microsoft's next Windows OS 'Windows 10'Technical preview version can download / install from October 2, 2014became. Currently the latest OS · Windows 8 (8.1), which was unfavorable to users, has been successfully resolved, but in fact the UI improvements similar to this are planned for free as of 2013 by free designersWindows 8.2 prototype"It was published as.

Fixing Windows 8 - jay machalani
http://jaymachalani.com/blog/2013/12/12/fixing-windows-8

Jay Machalani, a free user experience designer, is a designer who loves Windows 8. Once used OS X Mavericks for a year and a half, but it was not designed for productivity, it was not good productivity, it was not easy to use because it was different from Windows and Linux was also inconvenient with a new GUI, so Windows I returned to Surface Pro 2 with 8.1. However, Machalani who likes Windows 8, as with other users, was dissatisfied with Windows 8 which was too close to the touch system, so as a proposal to Microsoft, the private edition "Windows 8.2 prototype" was proposed as a proposal to Microsoft I decided to make it.

As a result of pursuing the shortcomings of the UI of Windows 8, Machalani has reached the following five conditions for producing a prototype.

1:Microsoft wants to create an easy-to-use ecosystem using Windows on the Windows Store alone
2:Microsoft adopts Modern UI and live tiles with the company
3:Windows 8 needs to work on both "touch input device" and "keyboard based PC"
Four:Users using mouse and keyboard do not want to optimize touch operation
Five:Users using the touch panel do not want to operate through the desktop UI

While investigating what sort of things should be made, Machalani wrote the application of Windows 8 as "Classic" which is traditional Windows software, "Modern (Metro)" application to download from the Windows Store, Classic and Modern "Hybrid" like Skype releasing both of them. Windows 8 can switch the work environment to "Modern (Metro)" "Desktop", but from Modern UI it can use only Modern application and Hybrid application, only Desktop can use Classic application and Hybrid application , It was inconvenient UI.


The Windows 8.2 prototype which improved the UI by obeying such a problem while improving UI, has been able to use both Classic / Modern applications from any of the Modern UI / Desktop UI, and the troublesome operation is None required.


A conventional start menu that was not found in Windows 8 is installed, and a hybrid design that can be easily accessed to both Modern UI / Desktop UI.


Depending on the design of the flexible start menu, when the pinning number of the application reaches the upper limit, it can be deformed horizontally and displayed.


In Modern UI, you can customize the Modern application, and the item "computer" that you can see at a glance the connected device etc. is added to the right end.


In addition, you can start with multitasking regardless of the classification of the application. Of course, you can see the reduction / enlargement / closing buttons are arranged in the upper right corner of the window.


Also supports split application display. I can not think that it is "an improved version of Windows 8" any longer.


And here is a new UI of "Windows 10" released by Microsoft as the next Windows OS. A start menu is implemented, it is a two-pane system in which traditional items and modern applications line up, and although it is different design, it has the same function as Mr. Machalani's one year ago idea.


I noticed this similarityAccording to The Verge reporterAlthough it was not declared whether Microsoft was influenced by Mr. Machalani's concept, in the beginning of 2014 Microsoft had invited Mr. Machalani to his campus. Albert Shum manager at Microsoft's Design & Concept department tells The Verge that "it was great to see Jay and ask how to think about design."


Machalani welcomes Microsoft's approach, "I am satisfied if my idea had a positive influence on the design of Windows."