Some Important Points from Design for Windows Phone Developer session from Bijoy Singhal

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.