I remember once I
fall in love with Philips's quote: "Sense and Simplicity"
At the time it was
brilliant for me. It's not a prescription or a command to do. It's just a
thinking style. It really affected me in various aspects. My software
engineering methods, software architecture ideas and even my personal life.
And now this shiny
idea from Microsoft, "Metro Style". At the first glance, for a non
technical person It's like a technology backward. Everything is getting simple.
Maybe 'Metro Style' can be translated to 'Simplicity Everywhere Style'.
Truly, I believe that
Doing complex things with simple parts is better than doing simple things with
complex parts.
In fact 'Tile'
concept in the metro style is a simple concept which empowers you to create
complex user interfaces for multiple platforms as simple as possible.
The fact that really inspired me is how Microsoft spread this idea everywhere, even in their
25 years old logo.
