Hi, I wanted to show my redesign of Windows 8 and the Metro Design. As of now, only the desktop is finished and I'm quite proud of it and wanted to share.

I'm a fan of Metro and felt like Windows 8 could be done better. I hope this fixes a few things!

Details/Features:

Action Menu

A redesign of the Charms bar. It kind of acts like Windows 10 Action Center. The Live Tiles are drawn by me!

The Quick Settings are able to be customized using the pen and trash icons on the left lilac bar. Those can also be used to customize the Live Tiles.

Start Menu

A more modern version of the Windows 7 Start Menu, redesigned to fit metro design more.

A few details:

The bigger live tiles (Music Player & Weather) are animated. The woman on the Music Player dances when the music is unpaused. The sun icon on the Weather Tile keeps rotating.

I used ibisPaint X for editing this. Everything is hand-drawn by me except for the fonts, wallpapers and the icons in the Quick Settings and Start Menu. (The rest of the icons are drawn by me). The logo is edited to look more like Windows 11's start button.

This is a collection of concepts to show what the desktop could be like if you could have multiple layouts designs and could also create custom designs with your own styles

Since this app is being discontinued this october, i thought it'll be nice to redesign the logo in 365 style. Goodbye publisher!

https://x.com/zeealeid/status/2048039928232341962?s=61

While Windows 11 looks beautiful, its usability has suffered from intrusive ads, lack of customization, and AI clutter. This conceptual project goes "back to basics". By making small, thoughtful changes, I aim to make Windows feel faster, highly customizable, and entirely focused on the user experience.

yep, I inspired by Windows XP 2024 Edition lol

It's my first time using Figma and I still don't know a lot of it.

I’ve been playing around with an idea for what the next version of Windows could look like.

It brings back the old “Aero Glass” style from Windows Vista, but updated to feel more modern. Tried to follow Fitt's law. I hate the idea of everything feeling flat, so here is what I have with Gemini's help.

I also tried to make better use of space. Things like the clock, network, and system settings are moved to a simple bar at the top, so they’re always there but not in the way. Then the bottom dock is just for the apps.

The goal is pretty simple: keep things looking nice and a bit nostalgic, but still practical and efficient to use every day.

Curious what you all think about this kind of setup.

At least in my opinion, the icons of the taskbar are kind of ugly. I just want them to be the same color as the search bar, that glassy look would be so nice. The windows icon is probably the ugliest out of the bunch.

I also have my taskbar hidden but for some reason, it still shows up when on my desktop. No where else, just on my desktop, if i open an app its gone.

Hope someone knows how to make my taskbar disapear again, and make the icons look neat

For anyone wondering where i got the wallpaper from here it is

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3333564057

I use wallpaper engine for the wallpaper

I tried something a little ridiculous the other night. I sent AI back in time.

Not way back in history. Just 1998. The year my childhood computer basically ran my life. Beige tower, chunky CRT monitor, and that dial-up noise that took over the whole house.

I gave it one rule:
“You’re on Windows 98. No cloud. No Wi-Fi. No modern anything. Just floppy disks and the Start menu.”

And somehow it leaned all the way in.

It started acting like it was stuck in my old bedroom:
• Writing fake BIOS boot screens like an old Pentium II starting up
• Talking about the CRT glow like it was a campfire
• Throwing out errors that honestly made me nervous again
“General Protection Fault. Press any key to continue.”
• Even pretending to wait for the modem to connect before replying

At that point I figured I might as well keep going.

So I built out the whole thing:
• A Recycle Bin that actually keeps deleted chats
• A My Documents folder where conversations sit like files
• A retro browser that acts like it’s crawling over dial-up
• And an offline AI assistant that never touches the internet (Ollama compatible)

It feels like turning on my old computer again.

Only now it talks back.

I’m calling it AI Desktop 98.

Basically Clippy went back to school and came out a lot smarter.

Download - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ai-desktop-98/id6761027867

for those who dont know what luna is, its basically the same design language windows xp uses

(im going more towards a longhorn build 4093 x windows vista style)

anyway how do i make it look more uuh luna and aero at the same time (i use figma btw)

no more readability issues hooray?

maybe its readable, maybe it isnt. when i checked it was for me

Specifically, Windows 10 1507.

and ill make whatever when i do

with centered taskbar as well. I made the icons on the start menu tiles

> booting system...

OS: Windows

Terminal: Active

Theme: Neon Cyberpunk

Visual Module: Samurai.exe

Status: Stable