Metro User Interface in Windows RT

Metro User Interface in Windows RT

Metro. Why it is called Metro means it is modern and clean. Metro is a UI design language, which is text based language. This metro uses design principles of classic Swiss graphic design. The controls are built to provide an easy to use building element for your metro based application.

Key Features of Metro UI:

• Dialogs and Forms of Metro UI.
• Quick Access toolbar, Application menus with Backstage.
• More Color themes.
• Toolbar control.
• Status bar control.
• Panel control.

This Metro features are already available in Xbox 360, Windows phone and few Microsoft websites. Now Windows 8 also have few of the option enabled in it.

Metro User Interface in Windows RT

In Microsoft Windows, “Metro” is a new UI or user interface from Microsoft that replaces the native look and feel of the operating system. The Metro UI consists hugely of a “Start Screen” that’s made up of “Live Tiles”. The Live Tiles are dynamic with continually updated links to programs and features. The Metro design was introduced in the Windows 7 Phone operating system.

It is designed to be a predominately touch-based interface that will work across a huge variety of devices like Smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktop computers. The Metro UI is also expected to be the default interface when Microsoft Windows 8 was released.