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Now, as expected, Windows 11 leaks begin
Windows 11 Pro Overview Windows 11 The main part of this announcement was supposed to be a presentation of major UI changes codenamed Sun Valley. As you know, a significant part of the UX changes will be borrowed from the Windows 10X shell, and Windows 10X will not be released. Windows 11 Pro Features Windows 11 will get a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to retract its previous claims and abandon Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. And a completely new design is perfect for this.
The home and system elements will float above the bottom bar
The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign for an update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently, it was Windows 11 under this name. The Sun Valley project has long flashed on the network – Microsoft has regularly revealed information about it. the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circles developed realistic concepts based on all this data. Start is the business card and face of every recent version of Windows. Not surprisingly, in Windows 11, developers will change it again, but not so much functionally as visually: the Start window will be above the bottom bar.
Right angles will disappear, replaced by fillets
True, these minor changes give the system a much fresher look. Judging by the information from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “interior” of this menu – updates will only affect the design of the window itself. The control panel will also float and will have exactly the same design as Start. The Action Center will be combined with the control buttons – something similar has long been used in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island: commands will be in a separate panel, notifications will be in another, and specific elements (like the player) will be in another separate panel.
There will be a transparent background with blur everywhere
Indeed, insiders and designers disagree on this issue – some are sure that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will keep right angles, while others are sure that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fashion for fillets. The latter better fits the definition of “all-new Windows”: hovering over menus is not enough to create a truly new design. Fillets should affect almost everything in the system, from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, designers’ opinions on this issue also differ: some draw fillets in all possible interface elements, others combine with right angles. The web is divided on the style of the showcase island, the design of the corners and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone agrees on the transparency of the windows.
A new font already shown
Most leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in all windows, be it at least the Start menu or Explorer. Moreover, these effects are even found in the assembly of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft developed in parallel with the Sun Valley project for devices with two screens and weak gadgets. The so-called acrylic transparency means the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increased space between elements – the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and the titles of the pages will be condensed. Windows 11 will probably use the default responsive font Segoe UI Variable, which has already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.