{"id":1497,"date":"2012-10-22T20:20:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T20:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2012-10-22T20:20:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T20:20:31","slug":"die-icons-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2012\/10\/die-icons-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Die icons, die"},"content":{"rendered":"

After almost two years with a Windows Phone, I\u2019m pretty excited to use Windows 8 and its not-so-new-to-me UI. I\u2019m so over Win7 and any other icon-based experience interface. <\/p>\n

This UI\/UX is so efficient and relaxing at the same time. Here\u2019s why.<\/p>\n

Take the WP home screen for instance. When you look at it notifications appears on tiles, flipping over to display information. There\u2019s nothing to do to get the information. The only thing you have to do is look at your screen. So even in this position of doing nothing, you actually get some minor things done (typically, knowing who liked your comment on FB or RT\u2019d your tweet, email from someone specifically, new item on eBay, you name it).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not only efficient, it\u2019s relaxing. No pop-up, no weird-looking widget, no visual distraction but transition effects. No need of action like pulling a notification list or closing a popup. How many times did I tediously do that on my Android. It made me feel like becoming the machine\u2019s bitch and this new UI frees me. It\u2019s hard to describe but it feels great. I\u2019m back in control being able to know what\u2019s up\/communicate in various ways in one instant. <\/p>\n


Before, there was noise and confusion and a lot of clicks.<\/em><\/p>\n


Now you just look, swipe or use. No \u201capp launching\u201d, more like \u201cservice launching\u201d more than ever.<\/em><\/p>\n

Other example, the classic desktop\/taskbar\/dock. It\u2019s noisy to have that constantly in our view. How many times do we stare at it, searching things or visually wandering for nothing. Icons, pointless and aging concept that aimed at emulating an office desk. That is just not how we function in front of a computer anymore. <\/p>\n

More than a decade that we have apps open at all time like email clients or browsers. We now don\u2019t even turn our computer off but simply put them on sleep. And though we often use multiple apps, we don\u2019t need them on sight all the time. Multitasking is BS and we only switch from one app to another. So Windows 8\u2019s focus on full screen apps with easy switching between them makes sense. Again, efficiency and relaxation from the visual noise of a traditional desktop. Too many moving tiles? Turn them off or even better, go away from your machine. When you come back, know everything in one look, one swipe. Powerful, I\u2019d say.<\/p>\n

Icons are these weird shortcuts in our digital lives that don\u2019t make so much sense today. Too static, useless and central to the experience. I\u2019m glad they\u2019re slowly going away from the common use of a computer with Windows 8. For work of course, file systems and icons will still be with us for a while.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s like the Windows 8 new start menu becomes a classy, modern living room to use everyday apps while the desktop becomes the clean, flattened workshop to create stuff and get complex shit done. All in one OS.<\/p>\n

Mama like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After almost two years with a Windows Phone, I\u2019m pretty excited to use Windows 8 and its not-so-new-to-me UI. I\u2019m so over Win7 and any other icon-based experience interface. This UI\/UX is so efficient and relaxing at the same time. Here\u2019s why. Take the WP home screen for instance. When you look at it notifications […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1498,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}