My Windows Live Messenger Design

[Buu]

I was bored and I quite like the interface for Windows Live Mail and other live products. Anyway, i think messenger is a bit of the "odd one out" so i tried to create a smilar design to which is functional, clean and easy to navigate.

What do you think of it anyway?

Edited August 21, 2008 by Buu

[lordtinuviel]

looks really nice but cant be done

[matthewmarley]

Looks great !!

[Buu]

Haha thanks, thought I was gonna get slated :p

[Rappy Veteran]

Haha thanks, thought I was gonna get slated :p

Nah we like to see new ideas for WLM here on neowin :)

It's nice (Y)

[Y2Stu]

we all know there will be ads in there, what would it look like with ads?

looks great tho

[tsupersonic]

meh, I like the 2nd one. On the 1st screenshot, the contacts are taking up too much space.

[Buu]

meh, I like the 2nd one. On the 1st screenshot, the contacts are taking up too much space.

Me 2 :)

Quite like simplistic looking applications. Apple seem to have nailed it.. more or less. Im sure the new live messenger release with wave 3 will be awesome, expecially with its use of vista effects (forget the name of it).

Shame about the adverts tho... they really do bollocks up any chance of a "nice and simple" UI.

[qdave]

only if the real WLM would look as yours ;)

[Buu]

=D

[svmpatel]

Hey Buu,

That looks real good. (OT) Just out of curiosity, please can you tell me where you got that wallpaper from?

Cheers.

[The2]

only if the real WLM would look as yours ;)

+1

[Buu]

Hey Buu,

That looks real good. (OT) Just out of curiosity, please can you tell me where you got that wallpaper from?

Cheers.

No worries mate, got if from http://dl.studiopd.com/images/Hardwood.jpg

Increased contrast and reduced brightness a little, also put a left to right gradient across it.

This is my wall, 1440x900 tho.

[digitalsoft]

Great design, Just had an idea though... if instead of the top toolbox being for contact search, it could be for status update or display name... like facebook... so the second display bar message on WLM would be a status instead. - just an idea :)

[Kami-]

I like.

[svmpatel]

No worries mate, got if from http://dl.studiopd.com/images/Hardwood.jpg

Increased contrast and reduced brightness a little, also put a left to right gradient across it.

This is my wall, 1440x900 tho.

Hey Buu,

Thanks a lot for that. Much appreciated.

[AudioDope]

Now if you only get that msn live search to use Google, that would be ill, not sick.

[Buu]

Haha!

[lordtinuviel]

i dont know why people requesr thing when this skin cant be done

[Buu]

No one was requesting anything... i just wanted to show how how i wanted my msn messenger to be.

[The2]

i dont know why people requesr thing when this skin cant be done

Can't be done in MSN, but there are other programs out there.

Original poster could make a skin for some of them:)) just a thought

[Nehemoth]

Well with mess patch you can rip off a lot of things from ur MSN

[lordtinuviel]

Well with mess patch you can rip off a lot of things from ur MSN

yeah thats no problem but the glass.....