[Ammarx]

TechRadar has uncovered some interesting concept art and sketches that the Windows team demonstrated at Mix 09 recently.

The Windows team is notoriously secret about showing any concept designs the team have worked on, usually because of copyright issues and the fact the designs are not protected.

In the first sketch you can see demonstrations for different ways of tiling and arranging windows and thumbnails:



Next up is a sketch of Lava lamps, flowers, faces and some more realistic ideas of how thumbnails could work:



Below you can see a sketching in detail of how icons on the taskbar could work:


The team toyed with the idea of putting previews in the Taskbar:


Calling Batman, previews get projected in a Gotham like way:


Early concepts of the jump lists feature:


From these sketches and concepts you can tell that the team has taken a lot of different user interfaces into consideration. According to Microsoft there were more than 400 sketches of the desktop experience alone along with concepts for how different elements interact with each other.

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[FalseAgent]

the sketches are pro.

[Secured Tim]

Haha, so this is how Microsoft makes Windows.

[AMIRZ]

Really interesting post, so informative as always. Thank you Ammarx

[Syzygy]

Glad they didn't put in the gotham city batman call thingy.

Looks real lame

[Ammarx]

AMIRZ, on Mar 24 2009, 05:17 PM, said:

Really interesting post, so informative as always. Thank you Ammarx

pas de problème

[Frank2d]

This is better than the superbar in the beta.

[Bill_Puertas]

mmmmmmmmmm...... I still think that WINDOWS 7 BASIC THEME is "extremely" ugly, disgusting, .... in general Vista 7 themes are very "sissy" !!!!


we need an operating system for man

Actually Microsoft is building an operating system for Womens

WINDOWS 7 Ultimate Sissy Edition !!!!!


but



apparently, perform better than Vista luckily , we can change that theme

This post has been edited by Bill_Puertas: 24 March 2009 - 02:34 PM

[Villain]

Ammarx, on Mar 24 2009, 06:13 AM, said:

The team toyed with the idea of putting previews in the Taskbar:

oh hey now that looks familiar!

[Laguna]

Secured Tim, on Mar 24 2009, 12:04 PM, said:

Haha, so this is how Microsoft makes Windows.

Hahaha

[M.Sudoku]

Quote

oh hey now that looks familiar!

I think Villain made a similar app.

[lareeth]

M.Sudoku, on Mar 24 2009, 05:57 PM, said:

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oh hey now that looks familiar!

I think Villain made a similar app.

That was Villain who said that!

[Culprit]

nice information

[PurplePeopleEater]

Syzygy, on Mar 24 2009, 08:27 AM, said:

Glad they didn't put in the gotham city batman call thingy.

Looks real lame

I thought it was cool in a funny kind of way, the someone should make it an app for vista for laughs

[Edgar J.]

Bill_Puertas, on Mar 24 2009, 10:32 AM, said:

mmmmmmmmmm...... I still think that WINDOWS 7 BASIC THEME is "extremely" ugly, disgusting, .... in general Vista 7 themes are very "sissy" !!!!


we need an operating system for man

Actually Microsoft is building an operating system for Womens

WINDOWS 7 Ultimate Sissy Edition !!!!!


but



apparently, perform better than Vista luckily , we can change that theme

Stary with XP or use Linux... is FREE .

Windows 7 ogin to be awsome :