Photoshop Windows Rome!

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Hello, people.

Here's my 3rd concept:

Desktop

You can see the old good taskbar at bottom and start button at left.

At the top you see sidebar, now called Topbar. You can run your gadgets on it and you can dock your windows in it. This is something like more powerfull minimizing.

Computer

Devices are shown in some sorta of pie-menu. You can select device with your keyboard or with your mousewheel.

Docked window

Docked window is shown in topbar and always showing live preview of window.

3D windows

You can rotate your windows in any direction. Just hit the CTRL key on your keyboard, grab a window and rotate it. The fun begins!!! :jump: :jump:

[George P Global Moderator]

It's nice to see some good, fresh ideas, but those who are trying to do something radically/totally different, while good, will never happen.

If anything MS will make small, slow changes to the UI overtime, if they just drop a new one outta nowhere like with Win95 over Win3.1, I think most business users will flip. It'd add costs in their eyes, and they don't like that. Just look at how they fussed over the UI changes in Office 2007, even though the new UI makes Office better, easier to use and faster to use imo.

Still though, I like some of the ideas I've seen.

[MtnDewCodeRedFreak]

Except that, from what I heard, it won't be anything near having a taskbar and start menu.

[Warappa]

Hi all!

What do you think about this one?

Note: BEFORE you press the "Rome" Button there's just the "Rome" Button and the open Windows. No taskbar or something (look here). So Apps have the whole screen for your work.

Just as you type in the searchbar your categories list you more results.

Edited June 24, 2007 by Warappa

[azz0r_wugg]

Alot of you aren't considering usability : having large areas of screen estate occupied with flashy graphics does not work, will never happen and isn't practical.

Rotating windows? Why? Not useful.

Driving list in a circle with no details of other drives? Not useful.

Huge taskbar with a list of nearly everything on my computer? Not useful 95% of the time.

Windows will change but the core concept of taskbar/start menu is the area to work on and it won't change too dramatically. If it ain't broke - dont fix it.

Just some things to consider when making your designs.

[srstakey]

I agree ^^

Now that I am thinking about it...the only thing that I would do is to make some more options for transparency and some new animations. That combined with a sleeker, sharper theme is definately good enough for me.

What really needs work is the core...the Add Fonts dialog box which has stayed the same for over 15 years. The menus which were all supposed to look like Neptune's Activity Centers...and perhaps the core Longhorn pillars...Whatever happened to that file system from 1994 which ended up being called WinFS?

Honestly, I wouldn't mind going back to the Windows 95 pre-IE4 UI if it just gave me the features above.

EDIT: I would request one thing....the login screen from Longhorn Build 4051. :)

[Iian K]

I would have to agree with both of you.... I want to see a basic design, not too much eye candy, something simple, but a little futeristic. We're talking about a possible Windows Version here... Come up with some creative ideas, think outside the box, and also think about how Microsoft would design it.

-Iian

[ivanhope]

The first generalized misconception here is the need and complete dependency on the mouse. All these interfaces are focused on a user who points and clicks one thing at a time. Unfortunately, I have no clue how to draw high quality images like the ones you guys have shared in this post. But the graphic ability is obvious there, and maybe with some more specific input, something more realistic can be created.

First of all, it is not enough to just show an image, as I said before, a new and improved I/O device has to come with this interfaces, maybe even a set of I/O devices.

I know a lot of Linux users like to have complete control over the system and be able to modify all the underlying variables. While I think this is a cool feature of an OS, I don't believe these capabilities should be exposed to the end user, unless that is what the end user is looking for. I mean that we won't really need a start menu, with a 'programs' folder that deploys a list of software in the screen. Instead, the user will give a voice or written command in a box; for example: "drawing" then the OS will show some sort of graphic response, maybe open a window with a list options related with the command; the user then can select one of the options by voice or touching the screen directly.

The file system will change too, for example one can have movies in the hard drive but it is not necessary to know the physical location of these movies. A command "watch movie" will display all the movies, no matter where they are located in the HDD; or one could say "watch titanic" and do so, or maybe offer a download if the movie is not present.

Confirmation messages are other HUGE draw back of current operative systems. "Are you sure you want to close?" Of course I am sure, I just clicked the close button. However, the mouse interface promotes erroneous instructions way too often, and so these warnings are necessary; a voice command would eliminate this need, speeding up several processes.

I dont think the UI is as important as the concept itself. Eventually, computers will stop being a stand alone device; they will be a part of our houses and control several devices, each one of these devices will have a relevant UI, and the actual OS will be completely invisible to us.

Maybe some old fashioned text paragraphs (like this one) and maybe flow charts or other descriptive elements would help visualize the OS of the future, rather than eye candy jacked mock up versions of Vista.

[herbicious]

Just wanted to stop by and compliment you guys on your work. It actually looks quite fantastic; I never would've been able to think of/create such mockups. :) Keep it up guys!

[auto-logic]

Hello, people.Here's my 3rd concept:Desktop

There is _no reason_ for that clock to have a reflection.

Maybe some old fashioned text paragraphs (like this one) and maybe flow charts or other descriptive elements would help visualize the OS of the future, rather than eye candy jacked mock up versions of Vista.

You're right, but the title of the thread is...

[htwho]

I hope it leaves behind the taskbar... and find some other efficient way of using a start menu... free form + open source software...

[StarLion]

I'm working on something, here's progress so far:

http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8719/windowsromemp3.jpg

At this point, it still looks a little Vista-ish, but I have a few ideas in mind that'll set it apart (that blank space on the window and those pills on the taskbar aren't exactly what they seem ;)

[Sammyinnit]

I don't want dark, depressing black themes, 1001 balloon tips, more variations of the Task Bar and Side Bar. Wizard after wizard, and quick access desktop rubbish that clutters up my workspace.

[digitalsoft]

Havent posted here in a long time.

made a newer concept of an old concept... :blink:

anyway, here it is... http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/60352279/

[Black Label]

wow very nice digitalsoft. Loving that messenger concept btw.

[digitalsoft]

thanks :)

[WooSH]

@digitalsoft

that '7' in the corner is a good idea, with the swift, however that 'font' that 7 is in looks a litttle un professional.

[digitalsoft]

@digitalsoft

that '7' in the corner is a good idea, with the swift, however that 'font' that 7 is in looks a litttle un professional.

i'm sure we'll all get over it :cool:

its only a concept after all...

[Bawx]

I remember when this thread was started, I thought, well this is dumb, it won't last a day. Here we are, page 30.

With the taskbar?

That is insane. Make that into a VS! (for XP)

[Herculean]

I'd just like to contribute my idea which I have been sitting on for a while..

When you create more instances of the same app or whatever, the app would gain a 3d attribute, ie with 4 instances, it would become a cuboid, which then in a fairly beryl-esque way I guess, you could then quickly flip through the shape with a keyboard command/ mousewheel/ iphone style touch and flick etc and the cuboid would rotate onscreen showing each window.

That would mean the taskbar would change to the app bar. Where when you mouse over you get a preview of the open instances of the app, where you can quickly just get to the instance you want.

I don't really have the photoshop skillz, but if anyone thinks this is a good idea, please can you make a mockup!

[acies]

I was did this quick, going for a more oganic feel...

OMg, people will hate it!

[argonite]

I'd just like to contribute my idea which I have been sitting on for a while..

When you create more instances of the same app or whatever, the app would gain a 3d attribute, ie with 4 instances, it would become a cuboid, which then in a fairly beryl-esque way I guess, you could then quickly flip through the shape with a keyboard command/ mousewheel/ iphone style touch and flick etc and the cuboid would rotate onscreen showing each window.

That would mean the taskbar would change to the app bar. Where when you mouse over you get a preview of the open instances of the app, where you can quickly just get to the instance you want.

I don't really have the photoshop skillz, but if anyone thinks this is a good idea, please can you make a mockup!

:laugh: Paint.NET ROCKS!!!!

The taskbar (bottom) looks a bit freaky because it was done in 3 minutes. The 'depressed' button, the one that's a bit elevated than the rest (in this case, Microsoft Word 2010) represents what the currently in-focus window is, and it displays thumbnails of the application instances which you can scroll by hovering.

Edited July 23, 2007 by billyea

[redeemed]

-snipz0r-

With the taskbar?

5/5...excellent! Or the user could choose only the dash, dash + taskbar, or only taskbar.

[Berserk87]

I remember when this thread was started, I thought, well this is dumb, it won't last a day. Here we are, page 30.That is insane. Make that into a VS! (for XP)

yes! that looks so nice, make it a xp theme and no one will ever go to vista ! :D

[dr.bisho]

Yeah that's a good idea, if only I knew Photoshop :p

same here :p

I've made my logo:

And am thinking of ideas now for the UI.

thats the trend being used, i dont think its like that ....

beesides.. google it... one might have photoshoped it before :p