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[Tom]

Crazy Russian Video Clip - Must see it!

Am I missing something here??! This isn't any worse than the other crap I see.

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[Koogle]

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[Koogle]

flat is cheap on design, and cheap on resources (barely any io/badnwidth on image loading), so quicker loading ...all these fucking web companies want to reduce load times on apps etc because the average user has the attention span of a fucking ant. welp its taking more than 3seconds to load.. I'll just do something else. COmpany.. oh noes precious data we can use to sellout our customer and boost our platform is going down!!!

So it works for mobiles which is where M$ flatshit color square were introduced first on windows wen/mobile.. they are just so fucking lazy they want consumers to accept that crap on desktops.

Developers/companies go along with it because its cheap and easy, and they need fuck all design skill or gui designer to hire.

Quiet frankly windows95 looked(could look) fucking better and at least had some sort design work, also color theming was there in semi detail for the desktop user to change colors for different parts of winform ui. M$ to fucking lazy to offer such customization and options anymore.. yet they roll in money because of fucking dumb people are these days.

WinXP went with full on gfx theming.
Vista kept gfx theming, but dumbed it down with color shading.
Both cases you needed thirdparty software to really get at doing themes for the OS.

Win8 went fullretard anti gui customization and trying to force people into liking this square flat color tile shit which was a push to mobile , and getting developers doing crapps that MS could use to boost there shit mobile platform and bring there metro appshit into cloud spyware on the desktop. A win on all fronts for MS.

If MS weren't so fucking shit though, they would introduce a skinning api that allowed the windows theme to be customized much like css. So enthusiast could easily tailor there desktop to how they want with relative ease of using css styling markup and get away with doing some pretty cool theming of the gui without the need for photoshop and other thirdparty apps needed for theming the gui etc.

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no one is forcing you to do anything. If you do a little research you will find that most people don't even look at win UI save for taskbar. So why invest in that at all? Theming support would be nice tho, I agree with that. But again, most people I know, including myself, do everything in full screen. that 1% of time when I am doing something like copy/paste I really don't care. I also don't use win 8 start screen, I use start menu app instead, problem solved.

[Koogle]

well i don't do anything in fullscreen mcuh anymore.. everything windowed even production apps are often windowed.. with other relevant windows just behind.. depending on which direction is faster to mouse to... taskbar task, or window behind or altab but thats hit or miss cycling etc..

fullscreen applications/games to me is rarely used with larger lcd's which was partly white metro shit single tasking was such abig fuck you to anyone but tablet drones. The stupidity of M$ to even go so far as to bring window OS control panel options from windowed form (which was often more better usage of screenspace with more options), into there stinking pile of metro tile crap gui was a big stinking fuck you to anyone but the drone that accepts such pile of shit dumbed down interfaces oversized spaced out fonts etc.

I even play a lot of games windowed now, except for shooters then fullscreen makes sense for best focus.

Desktop is for quick multitasking. Also why virtual desktops never really appealed me to because the workflow isn't as fast, what is fast is being able to partly see as much application window space as possible all the time. Having to switch views or move windows about means you doing it wrong to me, but its all dependent on available screen space i guess, it works on a tablet because the screensize is to small that you need everything fullscreen really even with larger dpi screens.

[gx-x]

what can I say, you apparently like distractions, while for instance I don't. While I fully dislike win 8 start screen and tile bullshit, I do like the clean UI. I am an UI designer and graphics designer btw. and I assume you are a coder/programmer so forgive me for not understanding your point of view on this matter, like I don't understand 100+ coders that I work with, tho, most of them use linux but all fail at even most basic aesthetics (that's why company hired UI designers) but I assure you, I would never approve of those ugly tiles in win 8, let alone design such a thing in that way. Tiles CAN be good but they are not implemented in an appropriate way, so as they are now, it looks raw and I wouldn;t even touch mobile winOS phones, that is just plain retarded design, probably done by some coder with that idea coming as an order from the management, that thought "we need boxes, but they can't be like on android or iOS so make them different, don't care how".

with all being said, having a complex UI would severely impact my own decisions in design and lucky for me, my managers don't see win8 UI design as trending thing so I am not steered in that direction.

PS. Maybe they were inspired by Piet Mondrian's paintings:





but those are paintings, not UI design, and also, if they are getting their idea from him - they are doing it wrong :d

[Tom]

Already too much discussion about M$. Fuck if anyone wants to go in a coma just read all this above. LOL! The facts have not changed. Since Win7, Windows is sucky and their implementation or sales tactics to throw tiles in and F up the start button turns everyone off. I will stay on Win7 for as long as I possibly can.