14 DAY TRIAL // While Microsoft keeps improving the modern approach in Windows 10 at a somewhat slow pace, the skilled designers out there move a lot faster and come up with new ideas regularly.
This is the case of a new concept created and shared on Twitter by @carmellolb, who imagines Windows 10 with an evolution of the Fluent Design language and several new features that users have been drooling over for a long time already.
While the project itself is also based on some other concepts that we’ve seen before, it also comes with several unique proposals, including a one-line date and time approach which, to be completely honest, I still don’t know why Microsoft doesn’t offer in the first place.
Now that I saw how the whole thing looks in this concept, I realized that a one-line mode would just make sense, especially if there’s enough room on the taskbar.
Rounded design on the desktop
The concept also envisions a rounded taskbar search, rounded corners on tiles, windows, the Start menu, and other UI elements. A move to a rounded design is something that Microsoft itself has been experimenting lately, and it’s believed that sooner or later, Windows 10 as a whole could give up on sharp corners.
This concept also brings back Sets, a feature that Microsoft has already pulled but which was supposed to make the dream of tabs in File Explorer finally possible. Only that Sets brought tabs everywhere across the OS, but Microsoft eventually discontinued it because it was based on Microsoft Edge legacy and we all know what happened to the browser.
All in all, this concept looks clean and modern, and it’s something that Microsoft itself should check out to get a better picture (literally) of what people expect from Windows 10.
