I attended session of Bijoy Singhal on Design for Windows Phone Developer. I captured some of the points from that session as below
IT has been moved from office to home and in between ;
- Smartphone is not a tiny desktop
- Phone usage pattern different from desktop
- You don’t want to create app that wont be used after 1st time
- As a developer start putting effort in design
- Good design = ease of use + experience (functionality, useful,delightful )
- Good design is personal
- Good design is differential between two apps
- Metro : Content over Chrome
- Metro : Navigation
- Metro : Lite & Simple Tiles
- Metro : Typography
- Metro design is large extent inspired by transportation industry
- Metro is not just about putting square boxes , it is about performance also
- Metro discourage to use buttons
- In Windows Phone you do not exit from any random page
- Shrinking everything does not make better app
- Chrome is not information but the beauty aspect of the application.
- all the font in Windows Phone are SIGO font
- Motion in Windows Phone design : Turnstile ,Contriumm, Swivel, slide
- Tilt effect to show response to user.
