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The curious case of Microsoft’s Metro, a design language that cannot be spoken

Microsoft’s Metro design language has gone through a name change of late. Used to describe the company’s design principles around typography and minimal graphics, Metro is now referred to as the “Microsoft design language.” 

More companies should put focus on systems of design like this. Simply put, these are the new highways and mass-transit systems, and we need to treat them that way.