Forget XAML !! Neon is Coming
This is Project NEON, the upcoming incremental upgrade for Windows 10’s design Project NEON will heavily focus on animations, simplicity, and consistency – essentially bringing back Windows 7’s Aero Glass and mixing it up with animations like the ones from the Windows Phone 8/7 era. Project NEON also focuses a lot on 3D and HoloLens interactions. As shown in the above concept, hovering over a navigation item or element shows a backdrop to make it feel like a natural interaction. On a PC, the background color will follow your mouse’s pointer – but on a HoloLens, it’ll presumably follow your gaze or HoloLens’ clicker. ANIMATIONS ON NEON ARE STUPENDOUSLY SMOOTH I have seen a few other video concepts of Project NEON which show off some of the animations in the UI – and to put it simply, these animations are stupendously smooth. Then again, these are just concepts and the “real deal” will likely be a lot different, for better or worse. If you look closely it looks like Mi...