Hello to All!
I started some Workshop about Future of Mobile Windows Devices for
- Interface and OS and
- Hardware-Sugegstions
and i want to invite all of you to be Part of this and add your Concepts, Comments and Ideas.
In my Powerpoint-Presentation i worked out some Concept for A 3D-Interface for Explorer, Messaging, Filereader and some Applications-Manager (instead of A Homescreen). Here is the Link, this is about 20MB, because i put in A Lot of Screenshots and Sketches of my Idea.
Within this, you can overview everything on the first View - and there you find Illustrations of an animated graphical 3D-Interface for easy exploring with Thumbnails of everything that is running.
My Idea includes A Concept for making Sessions of what you are doing (opened Programms, Web-Sessions, Multimedia-Sessions, Sessions for Volume, -for Settings, so that you can share whole Devices at once, ...).
Everything is presented to you in horizontal-moving Rings with Icons Rows and Thumbnails of Folders-Content:
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You can preview the Content of A Folder in Background-Icons (Levels) as Thumbnails when you hold your Finger on an Icon,
Menus and Settings and Explorer+ Readers are sorted and put together in 1 Interface - that is my Vision for Windows-Phone 7 Series and later Versions.
-Within the Apps-Manager you watch:
I also want to share with you my Idea of revolutionary Hardware-Features for Windows-Devices and how that could be realized.
Please feel free to let me know your Thoughts for some animated Interface and let's talk about your Suggestions for Future of Windows-Mobile Devices (-Should Win. be more the Way of MP3-Player or of A Tablet-PC?) and please publish Illustrations of your Thoughts and Concepts here, also Comments of the new MS Phone-Concept.
"Let's create Future"
While innovative, I think that looks very over-designed. Not sure that it would be very user friendly... perhaps too flashy.
nice
but i think Microsoft had gone through lots of designs before they chose the new one!
Wow you sure seem to be talented! But not quite sure if you're using it in the right place!
Too many icons
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Well. ive looked about in these forums.. and i cant really find a place for a collection of skins for the WMP on the phone.. i thought i might make a thread where i can share skins that i find... and i also had the question of how to go about making your own skins.. i used to make skins for other media players, and i wanted to get some info before i start.
My not so amazing unincredimble crazy collection of skins:
i kno that i dont know how to spell.
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First i will start off with my least favorite of all... the iPhone imitator.. (eww.. apple)
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iPhone skin - QVGA
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Secondly my favorite.. WMP11 skin.. from microsoft of course.
WMP 11 skin- QVGA (fixed w/ landscape)
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Thurdlee.. some random thing i found.. which deserves a look
G.AMP skin- QVGA - not working on my phone
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now.. i will sleep.. bye
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb262925(VS.85).aspx
That link has all you need to know about skinning - easy way is to just take one that's already made, open up the text file with notepad and then modify it and hit save (not save as). All the work is really in doing the art... I think this is a good thread. It could also use WMP mobile plugins - if anyone knew how to make an EQ that would be AWESOME!!!
dude.... thats amazing,, fantastic.. and skinning this is so much easier than other media players lol.. anyway.. so i remade the WMP11 skin because:
a) the background was annoying..
b) it didnt have landscape mode
c) the volume percentage was too close to the speakers symbol
d) i wanted a bar at the top to seperate the status
so now it looks like:
I have decided to start putting my design to some use, I'm currently skinning for certain apps and will also be bringing out collections of QVGA boot screens, wallpapers, splash screens and such.
If you like my work please comment.
Collection One
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Download
http://xda.me/bgs/splash/winorb1.rar
Download
http://xda.me/bgs/splash/htc1.rar
This thread will be updated soon with more work!
P.S- I am looking into skinning for apps, if you have any documentation of certain apps skinning please let me know.
Currently looking for docs on iContact, GAlarm, CorePlayer & Windows Media Player.
Thank you very much x86.
Enjoy! More advanced boot screens and network screenc coming soon!
awesome screens!!! small tutorial on boot screen install?.... i am hard spl'd i think that is needed??? thx!
But how to apply these skins.
Thanks
I have an Sprint HTC Snap (S511) and need some help installing these.
Thanks!
each device is different for install, i found how to install on Wizard and Hermes in the Wiki's, or just search 'how to change splash' (or bootscreen) with your devices code name after it, using the search feature.
I will post some tutorials soon, but it isvery easy on most devices using the app, it flashes the new splash.. just like flashing but waaay quicker and easier.
tuts for some phones I have done it on coming with my next set soon.
Cooks, feel free to use, or request customization (cooks only).
thanks guys
can you help me on how to install them on the Pantech Matrix Pro? Or is there a general app that i could use for installing them?
Thanks
svetius: "jump to your device" -- shouldn't this go above the dropdown so no rollover
Hey I cannot quarrel with the man who brought Youtube embeds within 48 hours or initial request... (btw, am I the only one using it? ... wait, let me answer that: yes. But I like it, so thank you !)
That pair of "quick navigation to your phone" tools at top right has been really great. It's just that enroute to using the text box to type in "desire" I almost always rollover the dropdown which causes an obstruction to my desired objective.
You probably wrestled with this and have reasons for the way you did it. But just in the event you were really really smashed that night and really had no rationale whatsoever and just flipped a coin, are you open to trying to flip the two...
Another unsolicited usability comment in the spirit of improvement. The xda favicon is such a welcome change from the boring vBulletin v, but I find it hard to read.
Did you ever come across how they went about remaking the YouTube favicon to improve its readability? It sounded very esoteric by god it did the job... A reader submitted it -- and YouTube took her up on it, and adopted it:
2 similar reads about it, with images:
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http://typophile.com/node/60577
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-09-16-n27.html
About the drop down...in the forum redesign we're working on, you must click the drop down to get it to open.
About the fav icon...feel free to make one that is better than the current. All of us are quite pleased by the new icon. It's not perfect, but making a legible 16x16 graphic is very difficult.
hey guys
I'm kinda new to programming, done a bit at college and now and then i read up about it at home but i know the very basic skills. anyways i thought i would test myself and see i could come up with an idea for an app.
its not a windows mobile app but i suppose in a way its for developers (can save progress of development and tweet it to followers). the app is called twitodo and it basically saves a todo list to a txt file in the install directory. it can also open a text file from a custom directory. it can also tweet the todo list to your twitter account and you have the option to view twitter in a browser window.
the ui is ok i suppose but it could be alot nicer.. would apreciate it if someone could do a few graphics for me. also if anyone has a link to a good guide for making installers because im not sure that my program install correctly, i think you may have to run it from the program files directory.
anyways feedback will be apreciated very much, anything i can add or remove at all just leave below please i really wanna make this app better, but go easy its my first program unless you count "hello world" then its my second lol.
EDIT:
Changes:
permissions to write file at startup fixed (moved TodoList.txt default location)
fixed crash when user doesnt select a file in load todo list window
Attached Files Updates!
just thort id put a pic of the ui on so u can see what it looks like
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What do you guys think of this Camera Concept for Windows Phone ? click for more screens via 1800PocketPC
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is out yet on xap
Nice,
when it's ready ?
Did anybody care to read the article or is at least capable of understanding the meaning of "concept"? These are just pictures. The designer is currently looking for developers for this concept.
I don't like it - I think it doesn't fit into WP7.
I was at a conference at Microsoft's HQ where they talked about Windows 8 and Metro.
They took an old fashioned RSS reader and slowly 'converted' it to Metro, as they explain every step. From what I understand, In WP7:
You display on the main area only whats needed - otherwise there's the [...] area for settings and configurations (called the App Bar).
Element design is kept to a minimum - jagged edges are too much, also, the borders around the icons are too much.
The circular elements don't fit well into a squared environment.
It's really nice designed. Shame I can't help, need to learn new technologies I am at .net aspx jquery ajax
This will depend on the OEM pretty much and what the Radio version / Firmware allow the camera to do.
for me its to much on the screen, if the first picture should represent it in use??? the screws are to much and to big. i know it should be like on an DSLR but its to much, it has nothing with metro to do.
I see RETRO here
BTW I could buy as appears in the Market