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You look at most XAML apps and they’re compelling new visual capabilities of Windows 8 may inspire as just kind of Windows Forms designs with pretty colors,” Hollis said. much bad design in new applications as they do compelling design. “I call them decorated apps. Th ey’re not designed, they’re decorated.” Now Platt turns his ire on live tiles, noting that Microsoft ’s own But the new Microsoft design language introduced with Windows developers are guilty of breaking the published Microsoft design 8 and Windows Runtime represents a far more strategic shift. guidance about how oft en live tiles should update on the screen. Microsoft , Hollis said, is in a race with other developer ecosystems to As a guy steeped in the practice of UI design, Platt saw this coming get its community fully vested in the practice of design. It’s a race that from a mile away. “Every time a new graphical environment arrives, Microsoft is late entering, but serious about winning. Th e problem, users pay the price while designers relearn the basic principles that explained Hollis, is that changing developer priorities takes time. should be branded on their hearts: Users don’t care about your app “First of all, there’s a foundation you have to learn,” Hollis said. for itself—they only care about their own problems and their own “You have to know certain principles. And then there’s a process pleasures,” Platt presciently wrote in his November 2012 column shift you have to understand. It’s a discipline.