Embracing UI on demand with the app bar

re: Embracing UI on demand with the app bar

Jon Gordner [MSFT] — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:25:31 GMT

@ArchieCoder: Yes, we'd recommend putting the Next button on the app's canvas (usually in the bottom right). Generally speaking if your users are *required* to interact with a particular piece of UI in order to use the page at all then it belongs on the main page, rather than be available on-demand in the app bar. For example in the Mail app when you are writing a new mail, the Send button is right there on the page. However, other functionality that isn't required but optional (like text formatting) are available on-demand.

re: Embracing UI on demand with the app bar

reggin — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 01:47:50 GMT

that's right, delete my comments, that is the best you can do any way...

i'm outta here

re: Embracing UI on demand with the app bar

mat — Sun, 09 Sep 2012 02:35:27 GMT

i think windows 8 Desktop design is very weak !

android use windows designing with nice and colorful icons . but we see only recycle bin icon in desktop ?

microsoft remove start menu but can be use new design and large icons ( optionally) in it.

i think micosoft engineers are in mistake.

Flat designing and 3D designing in together are nice.only flat and simple tiles ( use only 2 color ) is not attractive :|

re: Embracing UI on demand with the app bar

Rob — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:34:13 GMT

After reading this, I realized I had my icon groups backwards. Thanks for the article.

I also want to know when the store is going to open up?

And the devs that created the store app didn't follow this guideline. When you right click, the Home and Apps are at the top instead of at the bottom. It always takes me a second to figure that out.

re: Embracing UI on demand with the app bar

james — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:16:17 GMT

Just too much gestures / clicks just to perform simple actions....

- holding a tablet...a user have to reach to the top left hand corner to go back to the previous screen. A simple left to right gesture should suffice.

- Metro internet explorer is almost unusable... instead of the tabs being instantly visible as in iOS and Android...a user have to first reach to the top to swipe down to display the tabs, then tap on a tab to show that tab...this is just too much of a burden. It just seems like you are constantly clicking, flicking, flipping, and tapping just to discover menus that should be visible by default.

- You bring up the app bar and the user is presented with icon that have no text or description associated with them and have no clue what an icon does...the user have to tap again before the desciption for those icons show up...if this isn't a usability nightmare...I don't know what else to say

- this entire Metro full screen paradigm is getting in the way of common-sense. This horizontal scrolling is getting in the way of common-sense. Information that can fit on one screen is spread out left to right in big blocky tile...taking up or wasting space.

-Left to right scrolling does no work in all cases. You just can force everyone to use this sometimes silly metro paradigm. Information that can be presented on one screen with top to bottom scrolling is now being force to adapt to this blocky left to right scolling.

-Can you guys have someone from Apple help to design your scrollbar? That thing is ugly.

-Left to Right scrolling should be paged...and not free flowing...U guys have some work to do. I'm sure these complaints will be amplify once this OS is release.

re: Embracing UI on demand with the app bar

GT. — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 14:12:02 GMT

Windows 8 is the first version since Windows 3.0 that I am totally uninterested to work with or develop for :( Good job Microsoft!

The next step is to ask everyone at Microsoft to dress gray (VS.Net 2012), like Mao :-)

re: Embracing UI on demand with the app bar

to ArchieCoder — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 13:02:00 GMT

I think you should put "next" button not in the app bar

re: Embracing UI on demand with the app bar

ArchieCoder — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:44:12 GMT

Hi,

Thank you for your article. I have one design question: I'm doing a game tool for poker and before arriving at the game page (it is a timer), I have "wizard" pages and I put a "Next" button in the app bar at the right. After, I read your article, I'm confusing about what I should be doing instead.

Thank you

ArchieCoder

re: Embracing UI on demand with the app bar

Rohit — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:36:37 GMT

Thanks :) So the big question is when is the app store going to open to individual developers?