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by Rich Edmonds
Mar 14, 2012
Chris Finlay, web developer at PokerStars, has created something special for those Windows Phone users who are avid Facebook fans. The Timeline cover photo is a perfect way to show off some...
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by Rich Edmonds
Feb 09, 2012
Nokia Conversations has published an article that walks us through how the colours came to be for the N9 and Lumia 800/900 handsets. Tiina Aarras works at Nokia as a materials designer and is...
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by Daniel Rubino
Feb 08, 2012
Gizmodo has posted a nice interview with Sam Moreau, Director of User Experience for Windows, Windows Live and Internet Explorer (LinkedIn) at Microsoft. He's basically the guy tasked with the...
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by Rich Edmonds
Feb 01, 2012
The Guardian has interviewed Marko Ahtisaari (seen above), executive vice president of design at Nokia. Being responsible for the look and feel of the Lumia family of handsets, Ahtisaari was...
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by RogueCode
Jan 18, 2012
I spend a lot of my day designing Metro stuff for Windows Phone. And the majority of that time is spent creating mockups of each area of whatever app I am doing, along with testing it with each...
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by RogueCode
Jan 17, 2012
The Fast Track to the Mobile App contest was recently held by Core77 allowing aspiring mobile app designers to create mockups of their ideas and submit them. In December of last year the winners...
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by Rich Edmonds
Dec 16, 2011
We previously touched on YuleTile, an app to get everyone into the Christmas spirit. According to the developer, Mendzapp, 10% of the revenue earned from sales of YuleTile will be donated to charity...
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by Rich Edmonds
Dec 12, 2011
Core77, an industrial design and development magazine out of New York City, announced their "Fast Track to the Mobile App" contest back in October. Pairing up with the Windows Phone 7 team...
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by Rich Edmonds
Nov 03, 2011
This is very interesting indeed. Nokia has revealed a design story and explains the look of the Lumia 800, how it's made, why it's made the way it is and how benefits consumers. As you'll be able...
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by Rich Edmonds
Oct 24, 2011
Nokia Conversations, the official Nokia blog, has received a boost of Metro goodness with a design revamp. They've rethought the structure of the website itself and plan to direct visitors to only...
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by Daniel Rubino
Oct 19, 2011
We mentioned Google's User Experience Director for Android, Matias Duarte, earlier as he had just showed of 'Roboto', the new design-language for Android 4.0 which will hopefully make it...
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by Daniel Rubino
Oct 19, 2011
Information is still coming in but Google and Samsung just showed off Android 4.0 aka Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS). Coming first to the Samsung Galaxy Nexus which will feature a 4.65” HD Super...
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by Rich Edmonds
Oct 12, 2011
It seems that The Guardian has taken design elements from Metro UI after releasing their Windows Phone app and have applied them to their just-released iPad newspaper. Don't mistake this for a...
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by Tim S
Oct 05, 2011
Core77, an industrial design and development magazine out of New York City, has teamed up with the Windows Phone 7 people at Microsoft to host a new contest for the WP7 developer community....
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by Rich Edmonds
Sep 27, 2011
Microsoft seem to be going Metro and design crazy as of late (about time too) with the recent Windows Phone website revamp and the YouTube channel improvement. Now the Windows Phone UK (My Kind of...
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by Rich Edmonds
Sep 18, 2011
We threw up a post not so long ago where fans of the Windows Phone platform could go through and vote for the team to win the IDEA: People's Choice Award. At the ceremony the WP team were...
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by Rich Edmonds
Sep 10, 2011
Love Windows Phone? Want it to go as far as a platform can go? You can now make a small difference by voting in the IDEA 2011: People's Choice Award, which Windows Phone is entered. simply tick...
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by Rich Edmonds
Jul 02, 2011
This is pretty awesome and it looks delicious. Just a shame I wouldn't want to eat it and keep it on display instead. Twitter user Alper Özçetin celebrated his birthday with a twist this year. A...
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by Rich Edmonds
Jul 02, 2011
This is an extremely interesting observation. Many would ignore shapes used on smartphone handsets, simply because those shapes would be tied to app launchers or tiles which all contain either...
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by Daniel Rubino
Jun 11, 2011
There's no doubt that Microsoft is doing the right thing by recognizing how brilliant the Metro UI is and incorporating into the next Xbox update and Windows 8 desktop OS. So perhaps it is of...
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by Rich Edmonds
Apr 30, 2011
UIstencils has released a Windows Phone 7 stencil kit coupled with a sketch pad, and it looks damn impressive. The stencil itself works precisely with the pad thanks to the involvement of the...
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by Rich Edmonds
Apr 05, 2011
It's not everyday that we witness an incredible smartphone conceptional design, but the above video shows what SchultzeWORKS have come up with - the Triple Flip smartphone. One could wrap this...
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by Rich Edmonds
Feb 04, 2011
Are you someone who loves Apple products but has envy for Windows Phone 7 owners for the interface they have the privilege in staring at for hours of each day? Or do you already own a WP7 device and...
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by Daniel Rubino
Jul 23, 2010
We don’t know about you, but we’ve pretty excited about this Windows Phone 7 thing. The closer we get to that October(ish) release, the more desperate we get for all the juicy details on what to...
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by Daniel Rubino
Jun 08, 2010
Ever have a great idea for a program that no one else has thought of, yet are hampered by the fact you have ZERO programming skills and no graphic talent? Then boy does Microsoft has a contest for...
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by Phil Nickinson
Mar 16, 2010
So there's that Windows Phone 7 Series "Metro" coffee table design book thingy that Dieter and I were just talking about in the podcast, and istartedsomething's Long Zheng has gone and...
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by Phil Nickinson
Feb 20, 2009
AppleInsider (of all places) has put two and two together figuring out that HTC makes roughly 80 percent of all Windows Mobile devices out there. How they got to that number is they took Microsoft...
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
Love it or hate it, you have to acknowledge that HTC's design with the Touch Diamond and Touch Pro with the sharp edges and multifaceted back was a pretty big leap for the Taiwanese...
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by chris
Jan 03, 2009
