Microsoft Expression series UI's

Posted By: JonesJ | Mar 19th, 2007 @ 8:42 AM
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#Mar 19th, 2007 @ 8:42 AM
JonesJ
JonesJ
What are they doing?!

I mean, you release a new platform (Vista) then you would expect 1st party apps to look like the platform (and the other 1st party apps for that matter!)

So we get these hideous black UI's which are totally inconsistent (File dialogs for example)

These are the first generation WPF applications coming from Microsoft and as such should be setting a solid examples to inspire us (a'la Microsoft Max)

IMHO They look absolutely awful

Have we not learnt anything from Apple people?
#Mar 19th, 2007 @ 8:43 AM
DigitalDud
DigitalDud
What is Apple's UI consistent or something?
#Mar 19th, 2007 @ 8:44 AM
Rossj
Rossj
DigitalDud wrote:
What is Apple's UI consistent or something?


Not often, Apple break the rules often. Of course they get away with it because it looks cool ... Smiley
#Mar 19th, 2007 @ 8:45 AM
JonesJ
JonesJ
Hey, i'm no Mac lover but at least their colour schemes are close!
#Mar 19th, 2007 @ 9:15 AM
PaoloM
PaoloM
JonesJ wrote:
Hey, i'm no Mac lover but at least their colour schemes are close!

Aperture and GarageBand look the same?
#Mar 19th, 2007 @ 9:28 AM
JonesJ
JonesJ
Ok, lets not get too caught up in my Apple comment here!

My main point being the lack of consitency in these new MS products which are going to be acting as a WPF showcase.

Compared with say these:

http://static.flickr.com/81/240361196_ed43e3c1fb_o.png
http://www.on10.net/Blogs/larry/yahoo-messenger-on-wpf/
#Mar 19th, 2007 @ 9:29 AM
PaoloM
PaoloM
And Max was consistent with.... what?
#Mar 19th, 2007 @ 10:02 AM
JonesJ
JonesJ

Not consistent but insiprational enough for people to make applications that look like it and hence breed a compelling look and feel for WPF applications.

At the moment it feels like we are back at the dawn of web pages, we are seeing some hideous WPF UI's with gratuitious use of 3D, zooming and not much else.

We need the guys at Microsoft to build a couple of first class showcase applications to show us the way.

Expression 'aint it.

#Mar 20th, 2007 @ 2:52 AM
Custa1200
Custa1200
PaoloM wrote:

JonesJ wrote:Hey, i'm no Mac lover but at least their colour schemes are close!

Aperture and GarageBand look the same?


Nor should they either Paolo. One is a Pro level app and one is a consumer one. The destinction is a valid one. That being said there are some differences in Apple UI but they are more consisternt I find then Windows ones.
#Mar 20th, 2007 @ 4:25 AM
rhm
rhm
I like them. Well I like Blend anyway, haven't used the others.

The only problem I have is that the docked windows don't have all the options that Visual Studio's do. I'd like to do the 'unpin' thing and have some of them auto-collapse to the border and also be able to rearrange them arbitrarily. Maybe this was a deliberate decision to keep the layout fixed for simplicity or maybe they just didn't have the time to code a clone of the Visual Studio docking panel system (or didn't realise people might want it). Anyway, it would be nice is all.

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