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Try finding the designers behind Microsoft's Metro. Based on the amount of copying by iOS and Android since then, they must be one of the best.

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The Metro design philosophy is the defunct Zune team's true legacy. Their work on the PMP went to waste mostly due to timing, but their design work has lived on in everything else Microsoft has done since. Virtually all the core tenants of Windows Phone and Windows 8's design, from typography as hierarchy to live tiles and colorful flat design, were first seen in the Zune desktop software and Zune HD's UI.

Very true, at least the rest of people were smart enough to keep evolving their concepts instead of going to mainstream same ol'.

I wouldn't consider Metro game changing. The design and principles behind it was floating around in Houston long before I saw it appear on Windows devices and the Xbox console.

Microsoft made it popular but it's been around for a while in response to design driven web designer vs info and interface driven design.

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