Thursday, May 31, 2018

UI Suggestion for Windows 10 Setting dialogs (with pics)

Hey guys.

I get annoyed by the settings app on Windows 10, mostly because of:

  1. Too much wasted, barren space
  2. Lack of proper navigation in some areas that makes you lose the context of what you are doing

So I decided to give the redesign a go, and found out it is easier than I though. It just so happens that all the areas with the aforementioned issues were supposed to be dialogs but for some reason the Microsoft design team missed it. So I created mock-ups to illustrate how much better the dialogs could look, while maintaining the context:

Main backup page:
Backup Main.jpg

After clicking "more options" you go to this basically undesigned page:
Backup Dialog.jpg And then there is my suggestion:
Backup Suggest.jpg

And now another example, from the Wifi settings page:

Wifi Main.jpg
Clicking "manage known networks" gets you to:

Wifi Dialog.jpg

And instead, you can have:

Wifi Suggest.jpg


What do you think? It doesn't take much at all to introduce a simple tweak into the design of the Settings app (and others, like Mail and Calendar that sorely lack in design) seeing as Fluent already includes "Light" and shadows. Let me know in the comments.
Attached Images


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