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    Windows Phone Application

    Design for Developers: Metro

    Design Overview,

    Tips and TricksReza Alizadeh

    Architect Evangelist, Microsoft

    January 8- 9, 2012

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    Topics

    General Design Principles

    Design Guidelines

    Real-World Transformations

    Resources for Customers

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    Before We Begin

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    Rule #1

    Become familiar with Windows Phone

    before writing any code

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    Panorama/Hub Experiences

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    Information Architecture

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    Visual Designs

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    General Design Principles

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    Be Modern

    Undecorated

    Free of chrome

    elements

    Minimally designed

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    Be On the Go Capable

    Surface information Expedite the most

    common operations

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    Be Clean

    Use space aroundcontrols and content

    Make labels succinct

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    Be in Motion

    Animations should informuser about navigation

    and operations

    Make obvious what is

    tappable and whatis static

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    Design Guidelines

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    Panorama & Pivot Controls

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    Panorama & Pivot Controls

    Should have at least 2 pages

    Dont use controls that compete for swipe g

    Toggle switches

    Sliders

    Map control (unless gesture input has been locked

    Browser control (unless gesture input has been loc

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    Panorama Controls

    Incorrect

    Floating buttons should be avoided. Use app bar if necessary.

    Minimize interactive content Less than 5 panorama panes is recommended

    Panorama panes should either scroll vertically or horizontally

    Correct

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    Alignment

    24px margins

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    Layout

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    Animations Silverlight Toolkit for Windows Phone

    http://silverlight.codeplex.com/

    Page Transitions

    Tilt Animation on buttons, list items, and controls

    Dont use color changes in place of tilt

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    List Adorners

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    Buttons Dont add soft Back buttons

    No need for close buttons users can use Back button When possible, buttons should be placed in App Bar

    Incorrect Correct Incorrect Correct

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    Tiles

    Incorrect Correct

    Should not have rounded corners or 3d

    elements

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    Touch Targets

    Spacing too small

    No clear connection

    between list and map

    Good

    Good

    Clear

    betwe

    Incorrect Correc

    Minimum font size is 15pt

    Recommended touch target size is

    9mm

    Minimum touch target size is 7mm

    Minimum spacing between elementsis 2mm

    Provide feedback when an item is

    touched

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    Design Guidelines

    Published by Microsoft

    Adhering to design guidelines will he

    with Marketplace acceptance

    http://bit.ly/kJXZrB

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    Real World Examples

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    Billboard.com Initial Design

    17 Panorama items

    Entire application in one Panorama App positions to another Panorama for navigation

    Otherwise the layout complies for the most

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    Billboard.com Panorama Fina

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    Evernote Transformation

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    SoundHound Transformation

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    SoundHound Transformation

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    SoundTracker Transformation

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    SoundTracker Transformation

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    SoundTracker Transformation

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    Thank You