Microsoft is going to improve the design of Windows 11 to make it ‘more polished and coherent’

Are the words “polished” and “coherent” ones that you associate with Windows 11? If they are not yet in your lexicon for the operating system, Microsoft is ready to work to change this.

Details are currently a little thin on the ground at the moment and lacking in specificity, but we do know something of the company’s plans. This time around the information does not come from a leak or something found buried in code, but from someone working at Microsoft.

March Rogers – a partner director of design at Microsoft who is currently working on Windows – said that there is work underway to make design improvements to Windows 11.

In a couple of posts on X here provides some information about what this might mean for users:

We’re really focusing on design craft in Windows at the moment. There is still lots to do but this is the kind of work I love seeing ship: Settings pages redesigned for clarity, account dialogs updated for dark mode, Narrator working with Copilot on all devices, pen settings cleaned up, voice typing in File Explorer rename. Nothing fancy just lots of little details that help Windows feel more polished and coherent. Coming in the April update.

While all of this sounds good, we are going to have to wait to see what the changes look like. Rogers may have hinted at the tweaks that are in the pipeline but not even the smallest preview of what the team has been working on has been shared.

Thankfully, as Rogers says, the updates that are being released for Windows 11 this month will include some of the design changes, so there is not long to wait until we get to try them out for size and get a sense of the direction in which the Windows 11 design team is now looking to take things.

If there are any design tweaks that you could make to Windows 11, what would they be? Share your thoughts in the comments below.