Microsoft has rolled out many new app icons in Windows 10 that are colourful and capable to provide a very unique look and feel to the operating system.
The design team of Microsoft was working to innovate the icons for the last one year.
According to the corporate vice president of design and research at Microsoft, Jon Friedman the company was facing two major challenges on the creative front and the steps have been taken to address the creative challenges.Jon Friedman said that the company to introduce the innovations and changes along with maintaining the familiarity for customers.
He further said that that the major challenge regarding the designing of the icons was related to maintaining an open design system that has expanded to a range of contexts still being true to the traits of Microsoft.
It has been revealed that most of the icons are just subtle modifications.
According to Christina Koehn, a design leader for devices and Windows at Microsoft, the different styles of icons appeared at the Start menu and in the taskbar often lead to creating more mental load to find and scan the applications.