Fluent Design comes to Start and Action Center in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16215

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Published onJune 8, 2017

published onJune 8, 2017

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The Windows Insider team is rolling out the Windows 10 Preview build 16215 to Fast Ring Insiders today, and this is a pretty massive update that brings several new features and improvements. The new bits also brings a fresh coat of paint to the Windows 10 Start Menu and Action Center, which have both received some nice Fluent Design touches. You can learn everything that’s new below:

Start improvements include:

A new look for Action Center:Action Center has been redesigned based on your feedback to provide much clearer information separation and hierarchy. And the new design for Action Center also includes elements of our Fluent Design System such as acrylic! (and in case you were wondering, we’ve also added acrylic to our notification toasts!). As a reminder, you can customize the visible quick actions by going to Settings > System > Notifications & actions.

Note: we’re investigating a bug where notifications in the Action Center lose their outline if acrylic falls back to having no transparency. This will be fixed in a later flight.

As you can see in the above image, all these changes look really good and we like the new design for Action Center. Microsoft is just getting started with Fluent Design, so you can expect the new design language to pop up in new areas over the next few weeks. Let us know in the comments what do you think of the new UI for Start and Action Center.

Radu Tyrsina

Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).

For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.

Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.

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Fluent Design comes to Start and Action Center in Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 16215