Microsoft Design Language (or MDL), [1] previously known as Metro, is a design language created by Microsoft. This design language is focused on typography and simplified icons, absence of clutter, increased content to chrome ratio ("content before chrome"), and basic geometric shapes.

Feb 6, 2012 · A Metro style app is an app built using HTML5 or XAML+(C#,VB or C++), on Microsoft's new APIs - in short, it's a an app-widget-kinda-thing.

Sep 13, 2011 · Through the bold use of color, typography and motion, Metro design style brings a fresh new approach to user experience. In this talk, Director of User Experience Design and Research, Sam Moreau will share the design principles behind Metro and provide insights for how to apply these principles in apps that you build.

For those of you without context, Metro OS is a ROM me and some others have been working on to create a faithful recreation of WP8.1 Metro UI on Android. The ROM is intended to have a complete app suite which is a rewrite of essential android applications in …

Jun 4, 2023 · Just a few weeks ago I was thinking about how I really want to see a full-on Metro UI revival with brand new (or updated/recreated [if closed source] to work again) apps being made, regardless of the platform (so Android, Linux, and Windows, etc.).

Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps [1] (formerly named Windows Store apps, Metro-style apps and Modern apps) [2] are applications that can be used across all compatible Microsoft Windows devices. They are primarily purchased and downloaded via the Microsoft Store , Microsoft's digital application storefront.

Aug 23, 2018 · This year Microsoft announces its new Operative System (OS) called Windows 8 and have new User Interface that they called “Metro”. The concept of Metro was born with Windows Phone 7, launched on October, 2010. The main concept of Metro is to bring the best user experience that we can found on market.

Windows OS on desktop using Metro is different, because it was too dramatic a shift from what people already were used to, XP was so used that people simply didn't appreciate having to use a new UI/UX format/process.

Jun 30, 2012 · In this article, I'll discuss the latter, drilling into the details of the style that characterizes a Metro-style application or Web site. To get started, it's important to understand the vision and purpose of the Metro style.

Metro style apps are the new type of applications that work with Windows 8 (and future operating systems from Microsoft). Metro style apps function similar to the traditional Windows apps in terms of end user experience.