
The so-called acrylic transparency implies the use of new effects when hovering over elements, as well as increased spacing between elements – those areas of the interface with which the user interacts will certainly become larger, and page titles will be thickened.

Moreover, these effects are even in the assembly of the canceled Windows 10X operating system, which Microsoft was developing for devices with two screens and weak gadgets in parallel with the Sun Valley project. The vast majority of leaks and design renders show transparency and blur in all windows, be it at least the Start menu or Explorer. There is disagreement on the web about the island style of displaying windows, the design of the corners and the levitation effect of the menu, but almost everyone is unanimous about the transparency of the windows. There will be a translucent background with blur everywhere.The Sun Valley project flashed on the network for a long time – Microsoft regularly disclosed details of the new interface style, insiders shared the unknown previously information, and popular designers in their circles drew realistic concepts based on all this data. The Redmond giant has long been preparing a redesign for an update with the code name Sun Valley (“Sun Valley”) – apparently, under this naming it was Windows 11. And a completely new design is great for that.

Microsoft clearly needs a good reason to reverse its past claims and still ditch Windows 10 by introducing a new operating system number. Windows 11 will receive a completely new design.Almost all mentions of this new menu indicate that it will be island – the control buttons will be located on one separate panel, notifications will be on another, and specific elements (like a player) on another separate one. The action center will be combined with the control buttons together – a similar one has long been used in some other operating systems. The control panel will also float, and its design will be exactly the same as that of the “Start”. Judging by information from the network, Microsoft will not radically change the “insides” of this menu – the innovations will affect only the design of the window itself. We have to admit that this small change makes the appearance of the system much fresher. Not surprisingly, in Windows 11, developers will transform it again, but not so much in functional as in visual terms – the Start window will hover above the bottom bar. Start is the calling card and face of every recent version of Windows. Start and system elements will float above the bottom bar. Now, as expected, the Windows 11 information leak begins.

As we know, a significant portion of the UX changes will be borrowed from the Windows 10X shell, and Windows 10X is not coming to market. The main part of this announcement was to be a presentation of a significant user interface change, codenamed Sun Valley.
