Erik Scholz
If that’s really the new Windows 8 logo, something interesting is happening. It’s then inspired by Windows Phone new UI paradigm, Live Tiles. Basically Tiles are – similar to app icons – a starting point to dive into the app’s information space. But depending on a devices size they show much more without requesting to touch the tile/icon and by this opening an app. That could be a changed symbol in the weather app (sun, cloud, rain) or information as the headlines of received mails. The paradigm is – at least in my point of view - based on Jef Raskin’s (interface brain behind the Macintosh project in the 70ies) attitude not to hide information behind an abstract thing like an icon. In simple words: Microsoft’s Live Tiles might reduce the amount of timeconsuming tapping and clicking a lot. Because you already see what you want to know without opening an app. In fact there is no app any more. It’s more about how deep you wanna dive into specific information. Live Tiles are seen as powerful by the corporation to affect the logo design of the whole Windows 8 family. Maybe a hint for a revolutionary mobile first approach that can kill the whole outdated desktop/icons/trashcan metaphors. Or maybe just a puff of air.
(image via FastCompany)
“It’s clear, these iPhone games have the potential to ruin us.”
“It’s the damn cell phones. They take ‘em everywhere they go. Waiting for the bus. Boarding class. Takin’ a shit. Boom. They got a game in their hands.”
(via The Awesomer)
Shiver in fear Google+ and Facebook … NOT.
Tulalip could be the next failing social thingy Microsoft is currently working on. Officially demented as being “just an internal design project”.
(via Venture Beat)
