Introduction To Designing For Windows Phone 7 And Metro. Advertisement Microsoft’s new mobile operating system, Windows Phone 7 (WP7), introduces a fresh approach to content organization and a different UX, based on the Metro design language and principles that will be incorporated into Windows 8. It also targets a different market than its predecessor: instead of being designed mainly for business and technology workers, WP7 is targeted at active people with a busy life, both offline and online, and who use social networks every day, whatever their background.
Why Should Designers Care? First, it’s a new interface, so you have space to create and develop some new ideas for it. Secondly, Metro design is a market reality that we can’t ignore. A New Approach To Design The Windows Phone team was inspired by the typography in way-finding design1. Grid Systems in Graphic Design, by Josef Müller-Brockman Clean design and typography, as exemplified by Cocktail Flow3 and Fuse4.
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