


These limitations include small and crowded controls that can be difficult to interact with, visual noise which makes it difficult to focus or identify the active area, and inconsistent state indication that can cause distractions and confusion. The current visual language (which hasn’t been updated since Visual Studio 2012) has limitations for many customers. We’ve created a new Developer Community Ticket tracking the improvements we’ve made to the command shelf, menus, tool window chrome, and document tabs where you can share comments and suggestions as we iterate on bringing these experiments to a future preview release. We’re excited to share these early designs so we can incorporate your feedback into making Visual Studio the best IDE for developers. The Fluent design principles have been applied across familiar products like Microsoft 365 and we’ve been using those principles in the IDE to make targeted improvements to real problems.

The Microsoft Fluent design language provides a unified framework to create and deliver more productive, consistent, and accessible applications.
