The history of the Win7 Home Screen

Ever wonder how MS came up with that, uh, quirky home screen for Windows 7? Very cool interview and analysis from Gizmodo.

The two pieces took about four months, start to finish. Chuck started with a pencil and paper, and moved on to Photoshop for the Windows 7 sheen, but the two pieces retain that sketchy feel—in fact, all the individual threads on the login screen were hand-drawn with a Wacom tablet.