The Copenhagen Concept – The Next User Interface for Windows 8?

GGarza | Nov 13, 2009 | Comments

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Speculation about Windows8 is largely built from short interviews from Microsoft employees. There have been interviews with Robert Morgan and Anders Vindberg of Microsoft. They say little but give some hints about what is to come.

Will Windows 8 be released in 2012 or 2011? Will it be 128 bit, or 64 bit? Will it be the end of the 32 bit OS, like XP. Will Midori be distributed, or will it be the beginning of a cloud?

The user interface, is probably going to be a big part of the next change in the OS. Consider how much Windows7 was designed to look like the Mac interface, with its jump lists, and taskbar modification and the like.

Welcome

Welcome

Other interfaces have been designed to take advantage of the Windows 7 like Bumptop. Enter the Copenhagen Concept.

Copenhagen was designed by Cullen Dudas. It is is a User Experience concept. “It is unique in the fact that it manages to bring together classic design, contemporary design, usability, and art.”

Switch User

Switch User

Unlike most interfaces, which are linear, the Copenhagen Concept is organized in an entirely different way. It is video like. It makes the interface reactive to the user. It can change and grow, or shrink.

Stuff On My Laptop

Stuff On My Laptop

The Copenhagen Concept changes the desktop, changes the taskbar, changes the logon screen; it changes a whole host of features.

The Windows8 interface may or may not look like the Copenhagen Concept. Microsoft is aware of the concept as Dudas has made contacts with different employees of Microsoft. One cannot determine if there is enthusiasm at the corporate level.  However, Microsoft can look at this and decide whether to follow in this path for the user interface, or pursue an entirely different format. But it is worth watching.

Watch a video about the Copenhagen Concept:

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  • Admin_RobertCity
    I am working on an idea for Windows 8 but it won't be as 'animated' as the video.
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  • rush2112
    are you being sarcastic or have you just never used windows 7? stupid flamer lol, there are plenty of other things do to in life than flame on a fan site.
  • Christian
    This video has been floating around for quite some time, but it is still amazing =)
  • Some of the ideas are good (like being able to filter files in Windows Explorer), but by no means am I going to use a taskbar that looks like that!

    I believe that the current taskbar is very good and efficient. Changing it to something completely new would produce another MASSIVE LEARNING CURVE. So I think it's a bad idea. If what you have is already good, you should either improve it or leave it as it is. There's no point of overhauling the taskbar just for the sake of having "something new".

    I also liked the idea of the logon screen. In conclusion, I find that there are some really good ideas in the Copenhagen concept, but at the same time there are others that might make Windows 8 difficult to use for some users.
  • David
    But give others who want to learn a new UI the ability to.

    I love the concept of it, makes alot of sense. But all in all Windows has become capable of alot of things and its starting to seem like not many new features have been implemented to give everyone the "wow" factor which the Copenhagen Concent gives.


    Windows 8 is going to implement the "MinWin" kernel (supposedly) so it will be intresting.

    It might also be only 64-bit but I doubt it will be a full 128-bit OS. 64 Bit applications havnt even become mainstream yet, so I dont see any point in adding support for an OS that doesnt even have software, let alone hardware that would NEED it.
  • faffasdff
    I saw that video made by some random guy a few months ago. This IS NOT what Windows 8 will ever remotely look like. Personally,I think it's just a lot of fancy effects, with nothing there that is actually useful or that actually improves the user experience in any way.
  • I agree with Faffasdff.

    Fancy graphics and swirling animations have nothing to do (in the end) with common sense business efficiency.

    Ultimately, it comes down to: How does this make the users life better? How does it make day to day tasks easier.

    Windows 7 accomplished this (compared to Vista) but it did so in a gradual and almost understated manner.

    I believe that Windows 8 will have to accomplish the same type of thing. Gradually fixing the things that Windows 7 hasn't fixed yet.

    Emphasis on gradually.

    Onuora

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  • Windows20
    This is very nice but what I don't like is the green color of the start button and the green taskbar.
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