Developers: 31 Days Of Windows Phone Metro Design From Microsoft UX Designer

January 2, 2012 | By Pradeep

We all know about the Metro Design from Microsoft. Its spreading quickly across other product teams inside Microsoft and also within design communities. Arturo Toledo, Senior User Experience Designer at Microsoft for the Windows Phone Design Studio is going to blog about Metro Design for 31 days. It should be more valuable to Windows Phone and Windows 8 developers for designing their own apps. Today he blogged his first post on #1 Metro Design Principles and Metro Design Language.

According to him,

Metro is defined by two things: Metro Design Principles and Metro Design Language.

The Metro Design Principles are the pillars (usually abstract concepts) that guide the creation of experiences for Windows Phone.

The Metro Design Language is a set of concrete user interaction, visual design, motion and application flow elements and rules.

Its definitely an interesting read if you are new to Metro design world. Keep an eye on his blog for rest of the posts in this series. If he posts anything that interests general consumers, I’ll post about it at WMPoweruser.

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About Pradeep Viswav

Pradeep was a Microsoft Student Partner when he was pursuing his Computer Science & Engineering degree. He now works for a MNC. He is passionate about technology and loves to share his knowledge with people. People used to mention him as “A Geek who is not Nerd”. He was fascinated by the Metro Design language and Windows Phone which made him to follow and develop applications for it. Follow him at twitter.com/pradeepviswav

Tagged developers, Metro, metro UI, windows phone

Anonymous

Less apps and more quality content. I mean lots of apps is cool and all, but I don’t want it to become like other platforms where there are so many pointless apps.
Anonymous

Microsoft has invested heavly into these style guides for Metro. Some developers would call it constraining, but Apple did the same thing starting with their orginal Mac and developers adopted when they found out their applications didn’t sell if they didn’t follow the style guide. I would assume the same pattern would happen in the Windows Phone market.
Anonymous

This series is greatly needed… I’m noticing a lot of these apps are so ugly or think it’s metro when it’s really not. I’m really glad he’s going to be blogging about this and I hope people actually read!
Anonymous

This is very generous of Arturo. Very helpful for developers and designers!
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