Topic: Design

10.11.10 Windows Phone 7 Wireframe Paper Sketch Template

I’ve been doing quite a bit of sketching and prototyping for a few Window Phone 7 applications I’m working on and needed a template to help keep things organized. I searched far and wide and found great solutions for the iPhone and Web browsers but nothing for Windows Phone. So what to do? Make one. It’s been quite useful and I’m making it available here to download for all you aspiring Windows Phone developers and designers. Start you sketch engines!

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07.30.10 Don’t forget about the actual phone

The physical design of phone hardware plays critical role in connecting the visual experience of the OS with the actually use of the phone. The design elements and visual language used for the OS should match that of the outer hardware. This is the only way to extend the “feel” of the OS and provide a complete unified experience. Visually connect the physical world with the virtual in daily use. It’s this unified “feel” that subconsciously completes the experience for you.

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02.22.09 iPhone as a music player? Not without changes.

First off, let me say, I love my iPhone. I love it more then you really should of an inanimate gadget. However as a music player, it sucks. When the iPhone was released, I was hoping it would replace my iPod and now Zune as my full time music player, but to my disappointment that was not the case. You can’t control that damn thing without looking at the screen. The lack of textural feedback really makes this a sometime (and I mean sometime) music player.

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“My country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ”

- Thomas Paine

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