When Microsoft unveiled Windows 11, everyone noticed one thing first — it looked beautiful. Rounded corners, soft shadows, glass-like transparency — it finally felt like Windows grew up. But under ...

Windows 10's Fluent Design System is influencing every app, feature, and menu across Microsoft's entire device family like a Halo Flood infection ... but in a good way. When you purchase through links ...

Bojana Ostojic was working on Microsoft’s experimental mixed reality headset, HoloLens, when she realized that she was seeing the future of design at the company. “I have to say, coming into that ...

SEATTLE—Earlier this year, pictures of a new Windows look and feel leaked. Codenamed Project Neon, the new look builds on Microsoft Design Language 2 (MDL2), the styling currently used in Windows 10, ...

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Microsoft announced the Fluent Design System back in May, at its Build 2017 developer conference. Since then, we've seen the new visual language implemented across numerous Windows 10 apps, such as ...

Formerly known as Project Neon, the Microsoft Fluent Design System is the latest iteration in the development of Microsoft’s look-and-feel for Windows. Fluent builds on the Metro design language ...

In brief: Windows 10's operating system-wide Fluent Design visual facelift has made its way to several Microsoft apps and services, but that may not be good enough for the tech giant. According to new ...

is a senior editor and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. The company’s design leaders — Friedman with Office, Albert Shum on the Windows ...