Microsoft started with Windows 8 and launched a notification animation that can be operated on the touch screen. The user swipes the notification to the right to turn it off. This operation is available in Windows 10/11.
Recently, Microsoft official Raymond Chen shared a cut-off Windows 8 alternative notification gesture animation. When the user wants to close the notification, he does not swipe to the right, but to the left, and then let go, the notification will be bounced away like a “bouncing rubber band”.
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Moreover, Raymond Chen said that a senior manager had lobbied to implement the gesture, but the designer rejected him. ” This stupid animation wasted the swipe left gesture .”
Raymond Chen said that perhaps because the overall design aesthetics of Windows 8 is to reject physics and pseudo-materialization and embrace the digital characteristics of computers, or perhaps it makes Windows 8 look like misbehaving students playing rubber bands at their teachers. Such an animation was proposed, but it was not realized in the end.
