The death of Flair? Windows Live's new look

re: The death of Flair? Windows Live's new look

pikablu0530 — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:47:53 GMT

a definite MUST to bring back the "spyglass" search icon instead of that ugly green "Seach" text-button. It's like a trademark for Windows Live and people are used to it already.

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DN2004 — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:11:48 GMT

I suppose they want Windows Live to look like Windows Vista menus

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Alber1690 — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 03:50:19 GMT

It seems like they're getting inspiration from the Windows Vista team. All of the new menus look a lot like the menus we have in Windows Explorer (Photo Gallery, Music, Documents, etc.) Oh, and I agree: that green button needs to go!

re: The death of Flair? Windows Live's new look

reguser — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:12:12 GMT

started working now - thanks Chris!

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G-Z — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:01:24 GMT

search-box-button-thing is ugly (the old one was pretty, they should keep it) but the rest looks great ..........

re: The death of Flair? Windows Live's new look

quikboy — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:49:38 GMT

I don't mind the New UI look on the non-Web part (like, Live Writer, Mail Desktop, Live Messenger), but I hate how it will look on the new Live.com and the UI header. It's sort like a flagship trademark or something that people have always associated with Windows Live.

The new look is great on the apps. seperate from the web, but a new look on the web pages is kinda sad. I've always thought the UI was way better than Google's, and the fact that they're changing this is sad news to me. At LEAST, they should keep the spyglass icon on the end of the search box. You know, the magnifying glass at the end of the search box. More than anything, it's the #1 thing that people associate with Windows Live. Even ask.com and a few sites have copied it. Much better than a stupid 'Search' Box. That's one thing they should change. I'm ok with the new look, as long as they don't get rid of the spyglass icon.

Otherwise than that, good news.

re: The death of Flair? Windows Live's new look

zlinko — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:07:36 GMT

So is the new bar that replaces the current flair offical? Or is that just a mock up?

Either way it looks great and will add more space for the rest of the content in the page. It is almost an exact mirror of Vista.

re: The death of Flair? Windows Live's new look

Chris — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:04:53 GMT

@reguser - the images are there. Send us an email if you're still having problems.

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yanverm — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:29:19 GMT

@ phunky, I 100% agree !

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reguser — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:41:02 GMT

I cant see any of the images in the post. Can everyone else see?

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CalumJR — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:54:31 GMT

That last post was supposed to say "Orb" not "Org" lol

re: The death of Flair? Windows Live's new look

CalumJR — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:41:56 GMT

I don't like the new search button either. It reminds me of MSN to much *goes to the bathroom and pukes*

I do, however, like just about every other aspect of the new UI.

I hope the links in the header are different for each product (but making sure they are handy links for similar WL products. E.g. on the WLspaces page it would have links to Hotmail, Messenger, Mail and Writer) etc.

I also hope they incorporate trhis new design within Hotmail and Spaces. I hate the current Themes in Hotmail. They are rubbish and need to be cleaned up a little bit and maybe more Themes added.

Last but not least, I hope they still include icons of each product in the Windows Live Org drop down. I love this idea, but I think it looks better with icons as well.

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the andyman — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:08:00 GMT

Just realised you'll have to change your site design to match ;)

re: The death of Flair? Windows Live's new look

the andyman — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:05:51 GMT

Looks nice apart from the search button. Strange that the flair was still used in the setups for the recent betas of messenger, mail and writer though.

Also nice to see Windows Live calendar, web messenger and contacts coming soon.

re: The death of Flair? Windows Live's new look

DN2004 — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 15:14:08 GMT

Oh wait never mind missed the last line :P