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Some random thoughts on Windows Phone 7. First, its tiled look resembles a bit the homescreen boxes of Symbian ^3 and magazine-like iRiver interfaces, but the real inspiration seems to come from wayfinding signs with their big clean typography.
The interface seems to be created under a graphic designer lead and not an interaction designer, as the experience revolves around graphics and not vice versa. That causes some inconsistency: some parts feature “content-as-navigation” concept like actual picture as a link to picture viewer and some feature just plain icons like Internet Explorer icon as a link to the browser. There are some visual contrast between tiles and icons, doesn’t look too consistent (same thing can be said about Symbian ^3 homescreen). With the addition of 3rd party apps there will be lots of icons, interesting how tiles vs icons will look then.
I think the goal was to out-style Apple, but it went too far. It’s like they wanted to create a new improved Twitter, but got carried away along the way and ended up with smth like 2advanced flash site.
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As for me - it reminds magazines rather than signs,especially on text heavy screens.
IE icon looks like shit at the moment, but hey - there are a lot of icons on iPhone that looks like shit :)
They can put in guideline that icon should white silhouette or use tile space more.
Btw, have you seen dual-screen concept from TAT? They've used that circular part of Else UI there :) |
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| Max Daunarovich | February 17, 2010 04:57 AM |
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| Yes, some strict icon guidelines might help |
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| Eugeniu | February 17, 2010 06:23 AM |
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So, it was both signs and magazines :)
Check this link. Man behind this UI spreading the word about development of this:
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2010/feb10/02-16Shum.mspx
There are some photos in the end of movie. |
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| Max Daunarovich | February 17, 2010 06:39 AM |
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| The best way to find the inspiration is to digg through inspired mobile UI. Inspired UI will help you in that. Check it out at http://inspired-ui.com |
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| Inspired UI | June 30, 2012 22:21 PM |
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