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duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

microsoft could redeem the kinect by releasing a national geographic game narrated by david attenborough

you are the bear gulping salmon out of the stream.

you must shake your booty in an elaborate courtship display or that hot little pipra aureola might just choose another mate

as a chimp, you must murder and eat a chimpanzee from a rival troop

etc

duTrieux. fucked around with this message at 03:04 on May 12, 2015

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pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

they already burned that bridge

your pitch sounds much more interesting than what they shipped, though

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

it would be easy to monetize past the initial purchase, too; periodically release online expansions that focus on different parts of the animal kingdom, or themes, or whatever. big cats. frog frenzy. the 'after hours' mating ritual pak. whatever, i'm not going to judge

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

Beep Boop
watching spanish grand prix, gv

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

Beep Boop


loving adorable spanish childrens

EIDE Van Hagar
Dec 8, 2000

Beep Boop


omg mad max

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

Workaday Wizard
Oct 23, 2009

by Pragmatica
i just can't get over how EDGE's icon look like IE's with a combover

Messyass
Dec 23, 2003


i guess "what the christ were they thinking" counts as being intrigued

Max Facetime
Apr 18, 2009

carry on then posted:

haha you're so loving mad about buttons

you know how much apple's UI design has evolved ever:

Sniep posted:

so let's see how much macos has fundamentally changed from MacOS 1.0 to OSX 10.10





i.e. all that's changed is that the color of the background of apple's buttons went from nondescript grey to milky-white plastic

meanwhile Microsoft invented software that's just a single button that you can use to see relevant and timely information even without pressing that button

guess whose UI design principles are winning the hearts and minds of contemporary UI designers

so yeah i'm mad about buttons

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



Max Facetime posted:

meanwhile Microsoft invented software that's just a single button that you can use to see relevant and timely information even without pressing that button

you must mean the power button because windows 10 is best without pressing it

Lysidas
Jul 26, 2002

John Diefenbaker is a madman who thinks he's John Diefenbaker.
Pillbug

checks out with the principle of "if the headline of the article asks a question, the answer is always no"

AWWNAW
Dec 30, 2008


he looks like a turtle that's been pulled out of its shell

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

Lysidas posted:

checks out with the principle of "if the headline of the article asks a question, the answer is always no"

Betteridge's law of headlines

it's a shame he didn't have an easier name to remember

pseudorandom name
May 6, 2007

it occurs to me that Windows screenshots never include the garbage low-res low-color OEM status icons for required software you can't remove otherwise your sound and NIC stop working

prefect
Sep 11, 2001

No one, Woodhouse.
No one.




Dead Man’s Band

pseudorandom name posted:

it occurs to me that Windows screenshots never include the garbage low-res low-color OEM status icons for required software you can't remove otherwise your sound and NIC stop working

i hate that stuff :mad:

SO DEMANDING
Dec 27, 2003

prefect posted:

i hate that stuff :mad:

one of the best feature windows 7 introduced was the ability to drag all that bullshit into a junk drawer

my work computer has 15 items in there!

leftist heap
Feb 28, 2013

Fun Shoe

Max Facetime posted:

you know how much apple's UI design has evolved ever:


i.e. all that's changed is that the color of the background of apple's buttons went from nondescript grey to milky-white plastic

meanwhile Microsoft invented software that's just a single button that you can use to see relevant and timely information even without pressing that button

guess whose UI design principles are winning the hearts and minds of contemporary UI designers

so yeah i'm mad about buttons

lol. Windows - It's Good At Buttons

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge
people have always seemed to be in love with the idea of just seeing streams of information without need for interaction, but in practice it's too distracting to actually work with and quickly navigate to what you actually need to click on and use

often i found myself staring at the windows 8 start screen or windows phone, wondering where the gently caress i put that one tile, only to give up and use search because it was many times faster

duTrieux.
Oct 9, 2003

Max Facetime posted:


meanwhile Microsoft invented software that's just a single button that you can use to see relevant and timely information even without pressing that button

but that's not what a button is supposed to do, though

Chris Knight
Jun 5, 2002

me @ ur posts


Fun Shoe

AWWNAW posted:

he looks like a turtle that's been pulled out of its shell

too turtley for the turtle club

HAIL eSATA-n
Apr 7, 2007


i showed MY non-technical GF that windows ecks screenshot and she said "why?" and "that's stupid"

gj microsoft

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009

SO DEMANDING posted:

one of the best feature windows 7 introduced was the ability to drag all that bullshit into a junk drawer

my work computer has 15 items in there!

you've made more than 15 posts

rjmccall
Sep 7, 2007

no worries friend
Fun Shoe

duTrieux. posted:

but that's not what a button is supposed to do, though

also the only ui in windows that can be accurately described as a single button is the start button, and i'm pretty sure it still only says start unless you click on it

every screenshot of live tiles that i've ever seen, phone or desktop, has like thirty tiles active at once, presumably all constantly flickering and updating

and on the desktop they're only visible if you push a button first, so

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

rrrrrrrrrrrt posted:

lol. Windows - It's Good At Buttons



im the start menu item icons that arent aligned with the text above it (look at most used and settings)

and Windows Updat, Windows Feedb

Blue Train
Jun 17, 2012

I'm the windows store icon that is so universally recognized and has such market penetration that it is the only tile without text

Lysidas
Jul 26, 2002

John Diefenbaker is a madman who thinks he's John Diefenbaker.
Pillbug
im the Exɒlore Windows

Spatial
Nov 15, 2007

Blue Train posted:

I'm the windows store icon that is so universally recognized and has such market penetration that it is the only tile without text
literally zero margin around the image. pro stuff here

also lol the loving "windows updat" tile and its blurry half-resolution cog penetrating right into the text

leftist heap
Feb 28, 2013

Fun Shoe
I'm settings there three times. And the tiles that uses a virtually identical icon but isn't settings.

And the Search tile with no icon.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


windows explorer still suspends all input when waiting for a network location to connect. well done ms.

Thanks Ants
May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


pseudorandom name posted:

it occurs to me that Windows screenshots never include the garbage low-res low-color OEM status icons for required software you can't remove otherwise your sound and NIC stop working

Spatial
Nov 15, 2007

microsoft UI/UX team formation procedure:
- open list of programming interns
- select all, enter

Spatial
Nov 15, 2007

same procedure is used for QA

except you press delete at the end :hehe:

Cocoa Crispies
Jul 20, 2001

Vehicular Manslaughter!

Pillbug

Spatial posted:

same procedure is used for QA

except you press delete at the end :hehe:

jammyozzy
Dec 7, 2006
<img src="https://fi.somethingawful.com/customtitles/title-jammyozzy.gif"><br>Is that a challenge?

rrrrrrrrrrrt posted:

lol. Windows - It's Good At Buttons



Are the Word and Onenote icons at different angles or am I just expecting them to be and my brain is making them look that way?

Last Chance
Dec 31, 2004

jammyozzy posted:

Are the Word and Onenote icons at different angles or am I just expecting them to be and my brain is making them look that way?

they appear to be the same angle

leftist heap
Feb 28, 2013

Fun Shoe
they're the same angle they're just poo poo garbage

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN

Blue Train posted:

I'm the windows store icon that is so universally recognized and has such market penetration that it is the only tile without text

just like the icon, it coincidentally has the same functionality as bag with a hole in it

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

Last Chance posted:

they appear to be the same angle



new icon spotted

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univbee
Jun 3, 2004




carry on then posted:

new icon spotted

i'm sure if you spammed the windows button enough it would just get stuck in this position eventually

so is this still coming out within 2.5 months?

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