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 ...

In November, details emerged of Microsoft's plans to refresh its design language as part of the upcoming Windows 10 Redstone 3 update. Over the last few months, we've learned more about those plans; ...

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 ...

Microsoft has been implementing a major design overhaul for all its Windows app and utility icons in line with its Fluent Design System for Windows. Now the company is taking its Fluent push to its ...

Windows 10 is getting a huge makeover that’s starting with the upcoming Fall Creators Update. But for all the hoopla over the Fluent Design System (previously known as Project Neon) and its new ...

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Once upon a time, Microsoft came up with an interface that it called Metro. (People still call it that even though the term turned out to have trademark problems.) Today at its Build conference, the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One of the most exciting things Microsoft announced at Build 2017 was the Fluent Design System ...

At its Build developer conference in Seattle, Microsoft today announced Fluent Design, its design system for building user interfaces across devices. In many ways, the ideas behind Fluent resemble ...

One way to clean up an existing API is to provide a fluent interface to it. The goal of a fluent interface is to simplify the consumption of your API by making it more readable and discoverable. If ...