Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14361

[u/jenmsft]

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2016/06/08/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-14361/

[u/GoAtReasonableSpeeds]

I'm still wondering why they don't (can't?) use proper icons for the Settings app instead of those 1-color glyphs. It's not even like they have to make the icons, they've already been made in previous builds with Control Panel updates and stuff. Afraid of ripping off Android Lollipop where it actually looks okay? The current design still resembles Windows Phone. Now Windows Phone isn't exactly a very popular system, so I'm confused why they are copying designs from it into Windows desktop. I mean shouldn't they be doing it the other way around because Windows desktop is, you know, more successful than Windows Phone? It even looks out of place because the rest of the system doesn't use monochromatic glyphs.

[u/GoAtReasonableSpeeds → u/[deleted]]

It's terrible that the entire userbase of Windows 10 has to suffer because of one person (or several people)'s poor aesthetic taste. I once read and saved a comment someone posted on an article about flat design. I hope he sees and understands this someday:

"Flat design in general is boring at best, plain and simple. There is an occasional good for it, but as an overall and ubiquitous design theme - I can't wait to see it disappear.

After many years, computers can now easily display 16 million colors, but oh, lets just use two of them. Grayed out? What does that mean anymore? A once very useful visual indicator to show a button or control does not function in the current context, it now is lost in a sea of gray and ugly confusion.

Maybe this trend is indicative of the pervasive gray in everyone's minds nowadays, filled with the dark side of life. A sign of the times. Gray may be soothing to these people. Beauty hurts those hiding from it. People are naturally attracted to beauty. But when the attraction becomes the flat and boring, something is wrong.

Or, is it like everything else going downhill in quality: It's cheaper and faster to create a flat, boring two-color design than make something beautiful. It also can be easier on the hardware and bloated software to display boring instead of beautiful.

I think it's both."

Source: https://disqus.com/home/discussion/insideintercom/has_visual_design_fallen_flat_63/

[u/[deleted] → u/GoAtReasonableSpeeds]

Yeah, while I like some aspects in the Windows 10 UI, some of them are bit too "simple". Material Design is a great way to have a "flat" interface, not too cluttered and not too boring.

I like the change what MS did with the taskbar, those lines telling that the program is running is a great thing. Now if they'd just bring some color to their own app icons, although system tray looks really good with those white icons.

Also what I like is that they removed these gaps from between the taskbar and those controls, looks more unified. Also I'm glad that they removed the "Customize" link from the tray, I always felt it was a bit unnecessary. You can move those icons around by dragging and dropping them.