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Designing search for the Start screen
Given the ton of interest in the design of the new Start screen we wanted to dive deeper into the topic of search. There’s a clear focus on efficiency and overall professional productivity in the...
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Designing the Start screen
Thank you for the comments and feedback on the previous post. We definitely get the message that there’s a lot of feedback and passion around the design. We’re going to continue talking about the...
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Designing the Windows Store user experience
We’ve had the opportunity to demo aspects of the Store experience at a few recent events—at our //build/ conference, at the Store Preview event, and then just last week at CES. We thought it would be...
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Designing for PCs that boot faster than ever before
While we’re hard at work making sure you never have to turn off your PC and can run in a connected standby state, we know that there will still be reboots for updating key system components. We’ve...
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Designing the Windows 8 Calendar app
This post builds on the Mail app and People app posts, and details the Calendar app. We’ve worked hard to integrate these apps together into a seamless communication suite that connects to the cloud...
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Designing the Windows 8 touch keyboard
Starting with the earliest TabletPC enhancements to Windows, we have been working on “on-screen keyboards.” With Windows 8, we started fresh and took a “first principles” approach to developing the...
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Designing a simple and secure app package – APPX
When we started working on the new Windows 8 development platform one of the first questions we had was “how do you package an app into a simple yet secure format?” Before Windows 8 there were two...
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