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The main part of this announcement was to be the presentation of a major user interface change, codenamed Sun Valley. As we know, a significant part of the UX changes will be borrowed from the Windows 10X shell, and Windows 10X will not hit the market. Now, as expected, the Windows 11 information leak begins. Windows 11 Pro Features Windows 11 will receive a completely new design. Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to reverse its past claims and still get rid of Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number.
And a completely new design is ideal for that
The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign for an update codenamed Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”); Apparently, this is the name of Windows 11. The Sun Valley project has been flashing on the Internet for a long time: Microsoft regularly revealed details of the new interface style, insiders shared previously unknown information, and popular designers in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this data. Start and system elements will float above the bottom bar. Start is the business card and face of every recent version of Windows. It is not surprising that in Windows 11 the developers transformed it again, but not so much in functional terms as in visual terms: the Start window will be located above the bottom bar.
Right angles will disappear, they will be replaced by fillets
We have to admit that this small change makes the appearance of the system much fresher. Judging by the information on the Internet, Microsoft is not going to radically change the “insides” of this menu – the innovations will affect only the design of the window itself. The control panel will also float, and its design will be exactly the same as that of “Start”. The action center will be combined with the control buttons – a similar one has long been used in some other operating systems. Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be an island: control buttons will be located on a separate panel, notifications will be on another, and specific elements (such as a player) on a separate one.
There will be a translucent background with blur everywhere
In fact, experts and conceptual designers disagree on this point: some are confident that Microsoft will not change its traditions and will keep right angles, while others are convinced that in 2021 Microsoft will follow the fashion for fillets. The latter best fits the definition of “completely new Windows” – floating menus are not enough for a new design to be considered truly new. Fillets are expected to affect practically everything in the system – from context menus and system panels to all application windows. True, even on this issue, the opinions of conceptual designers differ: some draw fillets on all possible elements of the interface, others combine them with right angles. There is disagreement on the web about the island style of displaying windows, the design of the corners, and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone is unanimous about the transparency of the windows.
New font that has already been shown
The vast majority of leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in all windows, be it at least the Start menu or Explorer. Moreover, these effects are present even in the assembly of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft was developing for devices with two screens and weak gadgets in parallel with the Sun Valley project. The so-called acrylic transparency implies the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increased spacing between elements – the areas of the interface with which the user interacts will surely become larger, and page titles will become thicker. Windows 11 will most likely use the default responsive Segoe UI Variable font, which already appeared in Windows 10 Build 21376 for Insiders.
