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clindhartsen
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[2004-04-03 03:28:00 +0000 UTC]
"Checking your kerning."
(United States)
# Statistics
Favourites: 700; Deviations: 256; Watchers: 262
Watching: 112; Pageviews: 81780; Comments Made: 1193; Friends: 112
# About me
Hello there.My name is Chris and I'm currently a freelance graphic designer.
If you're interested in following me, I'm on Twitter talking about Microsoft, current events, and other topics each day. I also post photos to Instagram , reviews apps and write short bits on Microsoft at Tiled In , plus write an occasional post on my blog .
# Comments
Comments: 214
without any doubt, yours is one of the best galleries i've seen on dA. Congrats and keep up the great work!
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Came here looking for XBMC skins and stumbled upon your gallery, really great work and loving the metro designs, i fully agree with ZXCZA's comment.
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Great Metro UI concepts! Send them to the Windows team, I'm not joking, there that great.
Keep it up
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That was a really cool car.
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I know, I feel kinda bad for whoever owns it. The car looks like it is still in good shape physically, only now it's FUNK-A-DELIC!
You can check out another, larger view of this location here: [link]
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Hey Chris. Absolutely stunning UI concepts.
I have featured you on UltraLinx - [link]
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Glad you liked my shot of the Smith Tower. Thanks for adding it to your favorites collection. Much appreciated!
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Have you seen the new video of the development version of Windows 8: [link]
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I have, and I'm fascinated by it.
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De10! lo mejor que vi. me encantan los diseΓ±os. Un abrazo
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Metro is awesome... so is most of the stuff in your gallery.
It'd be totaly awesome to see Metro on Windows some day (at least as a theme).
KIU!
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Hi Chris, I like your UI design-sense - would you mind very quickly looking over a simple UI design for me? I could email it to you?
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Is your Metro design work based on the "UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7 Series" or did you just look at Windows Phone 7 to come up with your designs? P.S.: I absolute love your Metro UI designs.
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It's both.
It's interesting to understand the principles, but most of my work, between that and the television stuff, is deconstruction and reformation in other forms, so I looked at the Zune software, for example, and experimented reshaping that in a way that worked for the mail client concept I created.
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OH MY GOD, THAT EMOTICON!
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THAT ONE IS EVEN BETTER!
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Fantastic Work, Amazing
Should work for Microsoft
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The only thing I do is expand ideas off of the design language that likely came at the cost of millions of R&D, and was originally conceptualized by people much smarter than me.
And they can actually make it functional. 
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There are 2 kinds of "icons" in a metro interface, the text and an icon with a circle around it. In what occasion would each "icon" be used properly?
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Do check out this guy's stuff: [link] He's working on some Metro concepts as well.
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Hmm, what do you think defines the "metro" look on a desktop? Is it the large use of words over buttons? Or how 2-dimensional it looks?
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The concept on a PC would probably be signatured by three pieces: Content focus, less gloss, and more text.
It comes in one of many ways, even the latest Windows Live suite has some inspiration, though it's a mix of fonts and the ribbon. As well with the website. It's a medium ground that'll need to be found for more of this style of stuff to be successful.
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Hmm, I can theme linux to add less gloss, and more text would be up to the application.
How do you think a theme could help in content focus?
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In short, I think a theme can help in making content the focus in that it doesn't sit and scream at you by the corners.
If you take Firefox 3.5 [before removal of menu bar, no glass transparency], Chrome, IE9, and compare them, there's a big difference in how much is distracting you from the content. The older versions of Firefox had three tiers, four even, depending upon setup. (Menu, Buttons, Bookmarks, Tabs) Chrome was simplier, with two to three (tabs, input/buttons, bookmarks). IE9 takes it down to one w/ reasonable size (Buttons,input,tabs,options in one).
What this represents is making the content the focus over the application itself. A web browser should present the web, not the chrome around it. In some respects, a photo gallery program should present photos, not scream the ten million abilities it has. Same with mail, calendar, etc. The issue comes with finding the middleground between mobile OS style simplicty, and true OS power. Menu's were the old way, which most past generations are used to, but now we have a sense of touch and menus behind expanding options. The question is how we translate that to the big screen, without increasing complexity, but also without overly crippling abilities.
It's an interesting middle ground to experiment with and find the middle ground that works.
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How well do you think I did?
[link]
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It's an interesting beginning. Some of the items feel a bit too close together, as well as small in some areas. Part of the whole concept is also to avoid things becoming too dense and confusing, ala the bottom window in the example feeling like there's too many items in there [the files area].
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Well, things like the buttons are up to the app, so I can't really do much about that. But, I can make it bigger, although I think that it should be small and compact for netbook users, to give an application more room for the actual content.
And I find it odd that you think the file manager has too many items in there. The app was made specifically with the bare essentials (back/forward buttons, combined refresh and stop, breadcrumbs, viewmode buttons, zoom slider). Or are you talking about my files?
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Nice gallery you got there!I'm always looking for people with lots of mockups to get new ideas
btw do you got any ideas for the layout of the buttons of a webbrowser to make in still minimal but also look clean and very clear?
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I'm honestly sold around the UI of Internet Explorer 9. Although everything in one line is limiting, it seems the cleanest if you aren't an excessive tab user.
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ahh ok maybe so just at titlebar nav+tools and then the tabs and at end window captions?
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More or less. It almost seems like, looking at IE9, that the UI could be pushed up to consume the space of the general title bar, though I could see how that'd create a chaotic look. It's something to experiment with, I know I've seen some interesting ideas ala [link] or generally [link] work. It's worth experimenting with, but I think the main point I feel about this is that IE9 does makes the website the focus, not the chrome, more so than any other browser.
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