User concept imagining a series of Windows 10 improvements

Dec 31, 2019 07:35 GMT  ·  By

Concepts imagining a series of new Windows 10 features or improvements are nothing new, as such ideas make the rounds every once in a while.

More often than not, these concepts are inspired from rival Windows operating systems, such as macOS or Linux, and envision features that have little chances to ever be adopted by Microsoft.

The concept we’re discussing today was published on reddit by user MrZombieKiller and blends together design ideas borrowed from KDE and Windows 10X for an approach that at the end of the day not only that looks beautiful, but also makes a lot of sense.

The Start menu, for example, which is based on the one in Windows 10X, is what Microsoft should eventually choose going forward, especially as it creates more consistency across its platforms. People familiar with the matter previously said Microsoft was considering giving up on live tiles and choosing a simplified design for the Windows 10 Start menu, and the Windows 10X design could be the right pick in the long term.

Windows 10 20H1 is ready

Then, the Action Center has also been redesigned in this concept, and the most useful part is without a doubt the bottom control center that hosts quick access buttons, as well as sliders for volume and brightness – as you might know already, Microsoft has removed the brightness slider from Windows 10, and the company instead offers fixed pre-defined values on devices where brightness can be adjusted, like laptops.

The concept overall looks clean and modern in both the light and dark modes, and despite still requiring some improvements in terms of usability here and there (such as the sliders, which can easily be mistaken one for another), it’s actually quite a neat mix of ideas for the future of Windows 10.

As a side note, Windows 10 20H1 is already finalized, so there’s no chance to see the design ideas presented here making their way to the next feature update. Not that Microsoft typically uses concepts for polishing Windows 10 anyway.

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