Frédéric Harper @ Microsoft Canada
@fharper
outofcomfortzone.net
Introduction to Microsoft’s Modern UI in Windows Phone
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Windows Phone Design
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The Windows Phone Design Style
• The Windows Phone team have taken a lot of trouble
over the look and feel of the phone
• They have created a design style, inspired by
metropolitan signage, to express this
• Programs on the phone should reflect this style
Windows Design Principles
Principle: Pride in craftsmanship
Take care of the details
Make it safe and reliableUncompromising Sensitivity to Weight, Balance and Scale
Align to the grid
Principle: Be fast and fluid
Life is mobile
Delight with motion
Design for touch
Intuitive interaction
Be responsive and ready
Immersive and compelling
Principle: Do more with less
Be great at something
Focused and direct
Content before chrome
Inspire confidence
Principle: Authentically Digital
Don’t Try to be What It’s NOT
Cloud connected
Dynamic and alive
Beautiful use of typography
Bold vibrant colours
Motion
Principle: Win as one
Fit into the UI model
Reduce redundancy
Work together to complete scenarios
Tools and templates are designed to scale
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Windows Phone 8 SDK and the Windows Phone Design Style• To make life easier for us the Windows Phone design style is “baked in” to the
developer tools
• The default appearance, behaviour and fonts of the user elements all match the style
• If you want to find out more about the Windows Phone Design Style you can read the
“User Experience Design Guidelines for Windows Phone”
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/
hh202915.aspx
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Project Templates and Components
•Windows Phone SDK provides
a set of project templates
• Each of them maps onto a
particular style of application
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Frédéric Harper
@fharper
http://webnotwar.ca
http://outofcomfortzone.net
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