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IrinaL
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MicrosoftIntroducing new Fluent Iconography for Microsoft Edge
Hello Edge Insider community! We recently released the first of many visual updates we have planned for Edge as we modernize and evolve our design language. First, we’re focusing on our co...
Microsoft's design departments aren't really in the habit of talking to each other. Take the recent 19042 update of Windows 10, which removed the solid blocks of color behind app icons in the Start menu. A welcome update; those were an eyesore. They just forgot that app icons are used other places in the Windows 10 UI than the Start menu, and that those other places need to be updated as well. See, for example, the icons in the Default Apps section of Settings, which still have the ugly highlight color block behind them. |
Sorry, I'm pretty salty about Microsoft's design inconsistency lately. They're trying so hard to refresh things, but they're not bothering to refresh things in consistent ways, so it's not really an improvement.
Sorry, I'm pretty salty about Microsoft's design inconsistency lately. They're trying so hard to refresh things, but they're not bothering to refresh things in consistent ways, so it's not really an improvement.
nlphite Seems to me it's an approach where they take it one step at a time instead of waiting for everything to be complete. However, I feel like the transition from Win 7 to 8 never even completed IIRC, so the amount of time it takes seems really rough.
I'd be willing to bet that design committees are changing the goals while the artists are still working on the last set of goals, so they're always playing catchup. Just a theory.