On the Windows 8-team blog there are many posts on how the team worked on this product. They don’t explain how they did it, but they also explain why. One of the topics here is the redesign of the start-menu. Steven Sinofsky talks about the history and evolution of the Start menu and how user feedback has been an important source of information in the development of this part of Windows.

- Evolving the start menu

- Designing the start screen