Originally Posted By: Geoff Hannis

My guess is that the GDS (Government Digital Service) has been swapping notes with folk at Microsoft about their Metro "interface design language" (?) - the implentation of which can be seen, and no doubt admired, across recent MS GUI's. whistle

As I mentioned before, less clutter. MS refer to the concept as "content before chrome", apparently. On which point I can only concur.

See here for more on Good Design (is it just me, or does it seem to be in short supply these days?):-

1) MS Design Principles
2) MS Modern Design

And Saul Bass - clever, no doubt (sparse, even) - but perhaps not to everyone's tastes.

I agree up to a point Geoff, the info at those M$ links is nice btw, but GDS seem to have taken it to the ultimate extreme by hiding the chrome, and the content! And what structure there is on the MHRA pages isn't very logical or intuitive, eg the likes of FSNs and MDAs are in two completely different sections, even though you'd expect expet them to be related

Last edited by Eugene Doherty; 27/03/15 5:07 PM.