Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

re: Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

seeminglee — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:46:47 GMT

About time companies move onto clean and clear header designs. Kudos to the windows design team!

Related: a clean header I did for AOL back in 2004: http://flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/2134552098

re: Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

.Chris — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:10:41 GMT

Am I the only one who thinks this is a HUGE, and may I say HUGE!!!!!! step back? Looks horable! very childish. You say you want to have the live services in windows? does this mean we will go back to luna? cuz it sure looks like it....

please keep the constancy. keep the glossy, but offer us top change the color, and have it be on all live serices. and keep the background choices.

I'm sorry but this makes me not want to use windows live anymore, you have taken HUGE step back

re: Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

martijnsch — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:16:52 GMT

Same to Windows Live Favorites...

favorites.live.com

re: Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

derviskemal — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:17:56 GMT

another service that is still on wave 1

Windows Live Alerts!

alerts.live.com

re: Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

derviskemal — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:17:55 GMT

another service that is still on wave 1

Windows Live Alerts!

alerts.live.com

re: Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

BartW78 — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 17:53:15 GMT

How does one get hold of Wlindows Live Wave 3?

Bart

re: Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

CalumJR — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 05:07:43 GMT

"WinLIve" ... now that doesn't actually sound too bad...

@ Chris: I don't think they should nessercarily include the drop down, but just the Orb as the logo, maybe even without the drop down. It makes sense seeing as though Windows Vista has the Orb and this is a part of Windows (essentially).

re: Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

quikboy — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:44:26 GMT

So agree with the Orb comments. The orb was pretty nice to get to other services at the beginning, but they kept changing it until all it did was go directly to Live.com or nothing.

I also thought that the Windows Live Orb logo could be a bit different from the Windows symbol. I was thinking of a different look, like the way the MS Office logo, has the similar look to Windows logo, but is very distinct. Except that maybe the Orb could be the center part of where all 4 "panes" touch in the Windows logo. Or some variation of that.

I also agree with thaman04. Windows Live is a lousy name, and just dropping the name like that without the orb makes it even more dull. I also hate the TM behind it. If you ask me, just rename the thing WinLive and it would be much more catchy. Or WinWeb or something short and simple. That's how all the popular internet desintations are named. Not boring Windows Live.

re: Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

thaman04 — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 00:28:05 GMT

I actually really like it... it's much more organized and nicer this way.. and the customization is very cool!

The only problem I have is the Windows Live logo... i agree with a lot of you who said the orb should stay.. the orb is the 'windows LIVE' symbol... without the orb it just looks a bit plain.. also i wished they used a png/gif for the 'windows live' text instead of just text because it looks a bit cheap and plain like that.. lol

Other than that.. I really like it.. a big step up :)

re: Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

foaf — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:52:55 GMT

great stuff. I just hope they get it right this time:

set a date and roll it out across all Live sites at the same time.

re: Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

wargarurumon — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:40:51 GMT

my guess is that this ui will probably be used first on on the live personal homepage

since every other personalized homepage(google ig, netflakes,...) has lots of different backgrounds

but whats really great here that you could be able to choose your own background

bu i can't be more than satisfied, finally to be rid of that annoying blue, i really don't like blue, i'm a yellow and red guy

re: Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

Chris — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:29:25 GMT

The orb on Windows and Office works, but with Windows Live, i'm not sure if it does. How many regular users actually go and click that thing to see the drop down menu?

re: Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

tophtucker — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:08:21 GMT

Interesting. I sort of liked the Orb/toolbar approach, sort of mirroring the Start orb/taskbar and the Office orb/ribbon. Oh well. Branding remains a total mess. The whole thing remains a total mess. But it has some stuff going for it.

re: Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

Alex — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:31:39 GMT

Wow - this looks good. Really good. They should fix the alignment on the user icon and links, but they probably will.

I agree with calum-r- btw, the orb is nice. But it might be nice to change the colours to just plain black (or maybe white), so it blends in (or contrasts with) the rest of the fairly colorless header.

Can't wait to see what this is going to evolve into :D

re: Windows Live Wave 3: New Header UI

CalumJR — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:01:23 GMT

I don't really know what I think about this, but they should still have kept the 'Orb' logo, even if it didn't have the drop-down!

The 'Orb' logo looks much better than just the four coloured windows :(