![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Grid alignment, typography and negative space make up the whole, giving a full-screen experience engaging and immersive for users, especially those on touchscreen devices. Microsoft’s Swiss-inspired interface eschews non-essential elements like shadows, gloss, textures and puts content first before Google’s Chrome browser. It was also inspired by metro transit signs in terms of icons and typography. Windows 8’s Metro Modern UI is based heavily on the Bauhaus movement, founded by architect Walter Gropius, including proponents of the school’s philosophy Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and modernist painter Piet Mondrian. The new Windows 8 Start screen is now powered by Live Tiles (animated, notification-like widget) sorted in grids with a horizontal scrolling layout that takes advantage of common landscape displays. Windows Media Center and the now defunct Zune brand ushered in this new era of design for Microsoft but it was Windows 8’s radical departure from the sea of icons - which most desktop OS used ever since - that changed the game. Microsoft first introduced their “authentically digital” interface with the launch of Windows 8 and their Modern UI. Let’s take a look at how these 3 companies approach and implement flat design on their own OS and related services. The combination of bright colors and exotic typography has paved the way for unique flat interfaces. ![]()
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