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Tag Archives: Metro design language
Best practice industrial and user experience design – Nokia and Microsoft
Major updates: Marko Ahtisaari: smartphone evolution is only just beginning [The Guardian, Jan 31, 2012] … “There’s a point of view about design that all innovation in the interaction with the phone has been done,” Ahtisaari says. “Nothing could be … Continue reading
Posted in design, smartphones, tablets
Tagged Albert Shum, Axel Meyer, cloud client, design, IDEA, IDSA, Industrial Designers Society of America, International Design Excellence Awards, Kinect, live tiles, Lumia, Lumia 800, Marko Ahtisaari, MeeGo, Metro, Metro design language, Metro UI, Microsoft, N9, Nokia, Oscar, Steve Kaneko, UI, User Experience, user interface, UX, UX design pattern, Windows 8, Windows Live, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7, Xbox
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Designing smarter phones–Marko Ahtisaari (Nokia) and Albert Shum (Microsoft)
Including Joe Belfiore’s “Building a different kind of UI” talk as well (for completeness): see that in the very end. Marko Ahtisaari interview: Nokia Senior VP of Design [The Verge, Oct 31, 2011] Nokia designer Marko Ahtisaari sits down with … Continue reading
Posted in design, smartphones
Tagged Albert Shum, cloud client, design, live tiles, Lumia, Lumia 800, Marko Ahtisaari, MeeGo, Metro, Metro design language, Metro UI, Microsoft, Nokia, UI, User Experience, user interface, UX, UX design pattern, Windows Phone, Windows Phone 7
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Windows 8 Metro style Apps + initial dev reactions
With this style of apps there is a clear platform diagram: but there is no similar kind of diagram for the structure of the applications themselves, although that structure is absolutely different from the ones we are familiar with in … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud SW engineering
Tagged BUILD, cloud client, Computers and Internet, HTML5, Intel, JavaScript, Metro, Metro design language, Metro style, Metro UI, Microsoft, slates, Tablets, UX, Windows 8, WinRT
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Windows 8: the first 12 hours headlines and reports
After A too early assesment of the emerging ‘Windows 8’ dev & UX functionality [June 24, 2011] we came to an as full disclosure as possible by the keynote of the BUILD conference. Here are the very first (12 hours) … Continue reading
Posted in Cloud client SW platforms, Cloud Computing strategy, Cloud SW engineering, tablets
Tagged 3.9G, BUILD, cloud client, Computers and Internet, HTML5, Intel, JavaScript, Kal-El, LTE, Metro, Metro design language, Microsoft, Near Field Communication, NFC, NVIDIA, NXP Semiconductors, Plane Line Switching, PLS, Qualcomm, SaaS, Samsung, slates, Snapdragon, SoC, Super PLS, Tablets, Tegra, Ultrabook, UX, Windows 8, Windows Live, Windows Store, WinRT, Xbox
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A too early assesment of the emerging ‘Windows 8’ dev & UX functionality
Update on the recent craze in mass media to call the new era “post-PC” by Frank X. Shaw Microsoft Corporation [19 Aug 2011 3:37 PM]: Where the PC is headed: Plus is the New “Post” In the past year, and … Continue reading
Metro styled new entertainment experience on Xbox 360
Although not mentioned in any of the press materials (see the excerpts below) Microsoft has shown a brand new Xbox 360 UX interface in its E3 keynote today. It is based on the same Metro design language as Windows Phone … Continue reading
