Can some1 explain to me why the OS's UI is like... not centered right or something lol? Like with every screen you instead of showing you the whole screen it shows u like half or part and then u have to like flick sideways to see the rest or something
@CJisohsocool It's Microsoft's new UI eye-candy thing. I personally don't like it, and find it very confusing. This is one the biggest gripes I have with Windows Mobile 7 Series. I mean, when I look at it, I'm just thinking "I wish there was a zoom out button".
@CJisohsocool Actually it's kind of smart design. Look it this way: Home screen is start and every next menu unfolds from it. Look it like it's a crossword puzzle but with menus.
@macmann: then you don't get that the style is PART of the substance... by having text trail to the right of the screen, it gives the user a visual cue to compel them to move deeper.
Some people like 'sleek', others like big green gummi bear-like buttons. To each his own.
I don't see what's so hard to understand. The UI wraps around to form a continuous menu instead of having to drill down through menus. The edge is supposed to hint at more content to the side, but I guess some people don't get the hint.
@artissco As a graphic designer, I personally love the design. It's a very modern design focused heavily on layout, negative space and typography. However, the problem I have with it is that a) the design may be too high-brow for the average person to appreciate and b) this design style really only looks good when done by a professional designer with a good eye. I'm just afraid that when small development shops get their hands on it, they will completely rape the design style and we'll end up with fugly apps. At least with a more conventional OS with chrome, such as Android, iPhone, WebOS or Symbian, a developer can throw a bunch of controls on an app and it comes out looking halfway decent.
@catalysis: I agree the concept has promise but the visual execution is lacking in my opinion. I thought the PowerPoint launch deck won over many who felt it was distinct from the iPhone and Android, myself included. But with each reveal, I like it less and less.
Personally, MS is caught between a rock (Android) and a hard place (iPhone). To me the Windows/Office synergy is just not all the relevant for smartphones. Tablets? Maybe. Given the circumstances, WPS7 appears to be everything one expects, but there is not enough of the unexpected to stand out. By the time it launches, both the iPhone and Android will have major revs. If they initiate a very aggressive update cycle, perhaps they can give RIM and Palm a beatdown.
As a Graphic Designer myself, I also like the modern design. The problem I see with it though is while such a design may look and work well in print, on a brochure, it may not so much when done on a phone. It looks good when you see the whole layout, and I see MS advertising it as such with everything spread out. But when done on a phone you do not see the whole layout, everything is cropped, fonts are cropped, you see parts of your information not the whole. It always seem like you're missing something if you don't continue to pan, then pan and then pan again. Feel like you want to pinch to zoom out like others have said just to view all your info. In this case, it seem like MS have ironically chosen form over function.
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Can some1 explain to me why the OS's UI is like... not centered right or something lol? Like with every screen you instead of showing you the whole screen it shows u like half or part and then u have to like flick sideways to see the rest or something
@CJisohsocool It's Microsoft's new UI eye-candy thing. I personally don't like it, and find it very confusing. This is one the biggest gripes I have with Windows Mobile 7 Series. I mean, when I look at it, I'm just thinking "I wish there was a zoom out button".
@CJisohsocool
Because that's the design. I don't get it either, but I guess people want to spread words over two screens. Style>Substance apparently.
@ALBGunner04
It's rediculous. And what the hell is with the 2 black bars of nothingness on the home screen?
@macmann
Im all for style but thats just looks stupid lol
@CJisohsocool Actually it's kind of smart design. Look it this way: Home screen is start and every next menu unfolds from it. Look it like it's a crossword puzzle but with menus.
@macmann
But I don't get the "style" argument either. The single color button backgrounds with white icons... well, I don't think it's pretty.
In the third picture, the IE icon on red text makes me think of 1998 Geocities.
@macmann: then you don't get that the style is PART of the substance... by having text trail to the right of the screen, it gives the user a visual cue to compel them to move deeper.
Some people like 'sleek', others like big green gummi bear-like buttons. To each his own.
@Alan Strangis lol +1
@CJisohsocool
I don't see what's so hard to understand. The UI wraps around to form a continuous menu instead of having to drill down through menus. The edge is supposed to hint at more content to the side, but I guess some people don't get the hint.
@macmann
No one else sees the humor in a mac fan claiming a company is choosing style over substance?
@CJisohsocool yeah they should find a way to make use of that real estate.
@artissco
As a graphic designer, I personally love the design. It's a very modern design focused heavily on layout, negative space and typography. However, the problem I have with it is that a) the design may be too high-brow for the average person to appreciate and b) this design style really only looks good when done by a professional designer with a good eye. I'm just afraid that when small development shops get their hands on it, they will completely rape the design style and we'll end up with fugly apps. At least with a more conventional OS with chrome, such as Android, iPhone, WebOS or Symbian, a developer can throw a bunch of controls on an app and it comes out looking halfway decent.
@jon
+1 thats humorous alright
@catalysis: I agree the concept has promise but the visual execution is lacking in my opinion. I thought the PowerPoint launch deck won over many who felt it was distinct from the iPhone and Android, myself included. But with each reveal, I like it less and less.
Personally, MS is caught between a rock (Android) and a hard place (iPhone). To me the Windows/Office synergy is just not all the relevant for smartphones. Tablets? Maybe. Given the circumstances, WPS7 appears to be everything one expects, but there is not enough of the unexpected to stand out. By the time it launches, both the iPhone and Android will have major revs. If they initiate a very aggressive update cycle, perhaps they can give RIM and Palm a beatdown.
@CJisohsocool
When I look at one of those screens, I almost have the urge to, like you said, zoom out or straighten it out somehow.
The colored boxes with the tiny icon in the middle are also a really odd use of screen real estate. It doesn't look bad, just sort of....off, somehow.
@Ariel Bender
Yeah, the design seems to look OK with the middle phone because it's cleaner, but looks pretty awkward with the other designs.
Not sure if this makes sense, but the UI seems to look better by itself than on a phone.
@tonicboy if it's too high-brow for the average joe to appreciate, I might argue that it is in fact bad design.
@tonicboy
As a Graphic Designer myself, I also like the modern design. The problem I see with it though is while such a design may look and work well in print, on a brochure, it may not so much when done on a phone. It looks good when you see the whole layout, and I see MS advertising it as such with everything spread out. But when done on a phone you do not see the whole layout, everything is cropped, fonts are cropped, you see parts of your information not the whole. It always seem like you're missing something if you don't continue to pan, then pan and then pan again. Feel like you want to pinch to zoom out like others have said just to view all your info. In this case, it seem like MS have ironically chosen form over function.