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Collection, Movies & TV, People, Photos, Weather, and Xbox apps, to

name a few.

In this design, the app lives in a single window with a vertical menu
column, always visible, hugging the left side (see Figure 8-1). At first it
shows only icons.

Figure 8-1. The new standard design for Microsoft’s built-in Windows apps (left) offers a black
vertical menu column at the left side. If you use the app a lot, you’ll eventually learn what these icons
do. In the meantime, the icon expands the column, revealing the icons’ names (right).

In this pillar of options, you’ll find these consistent elements:

A button at the top. Click to expand the column, revealing the

icons’ names. (Internally, Microsoft calls the button the
“hamburger button,” thanks to its resemblance to three horizontal
layers of goodness.)

Send Feedback ( ). The smiley face opens the Feedback Hub
app (“Game Bar”), where you can submit bugs, complaints, and

compliments to Microsoft.