Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Designing Metro style: principles and personality http://ch9files.blob.core.windows.net/build/2011/thumbs/395.jpg Channel 9 - Designing Metro style: principles and personality Windows 8 marks the next step in the evolution of the Metro design style. Through the bold use of color, typography and motion, Metro design style brings a fresh new approach to user experience. In this talk, Director of User Experience Design and Research, Sam Moreau will share the design principles behind Metro and provide insights for how to apply these principles in apps that you build. en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:14:56 GMT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:14:56 GMT Rev9 Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality This was a brilliant session.  Please share the video and deck. 

posted by bigendian

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634516296283460598 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:40:28 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634516296283460598 bigendian Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality posted by Ionu

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634516299694546230 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:46:09 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634516299694546230 Ionu Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality posted by Ziv

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634516757694795126 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:29:29 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634516757694795126 Ziv Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality Yes will there be videos of the breakout talks?

posted by sarjee

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634516809150905868 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:55:15 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634516809150905868 sarjee Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality Great talk!  One of the best -- would love to see the principles and guidance distilled into a simple list / cheat that references this video where he elaborates on these ideas.

Important: The last 2:30 of this video (MP4 version) freezes ... timeline plays, but no audio and video is frozen.  Streaming version is fine. 

posted by BobTabor

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634519164582216372 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 04:20:58 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634519164582216372 BobTabor Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality posted by waleed

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634522274493041116 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:44:09 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634522274493041116 waleed Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality I am constantly confused in the airports with their stupid signs. My first move there is to find someone who talks.

Typography especially bold - looks cheap and ugly. Everyone thinks it should be dumb.

posted by dude

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634524509979623000 Sat, 24 Sep 2011 08:49:57 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634524509979623000 dude Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality Nice theory, but it seems in reducing to practice the minimalist, form follows function aesthetic got lost somewhere along the line. All that distracting motion and bright color in slide 44+ looks more like a childs paint-box or Gaudi's tiles in the Park Guell than something Mies van der Rohe might have conceived. The theatre example is certainly a bold use of typography, but as a means of conveying information clearly or quickly it sucks

Overall I like the concepts behind Metro, but I think it still needs that Jobsian obsessiveness to really work  If you want the tile layout to actually be beautiful in the real world, then you are going to have to apply a little more control over the elements that can get posted there; for example constraining the palette to two or three theme colors (with adequate contrast), avoiding arbitrary bitmap images, and outlawing or severely restricting how and when animation happens.

posted by Vibrania

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634528985058838067 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 13:08:25 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634528985058838067 Vibrania Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality posted by Paris Vega

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634535601070164596 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:55:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634535601070164596 Paris Vega Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality I really fear that Metro design maybe missing the mark completely. At about 39 minutes in sums it up...the point is made that the old Icons are ridiculous and the new ones make much more sense. I find the new look busy, distracting, and I wouldn't know where to go to calculate something, start a new generic document, make a new appointment, or start a new email.

The animation is nice for a phone, but quite distracting for a computer or tablet for that manner. It takes me away from what I was trying to focus on and diverts me to pay attention to whatever is now moving on the screen. I think there are some serious flaws in the thinking behind making Metro Apps the mainstay of Desktop or tablet form factors.

posted by zman13

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634562625988674190 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 11:36:38 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634562625988674190 zman13 Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality posted by Stewart

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634572029862482724 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:49:46 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634572029862482724 Stewart Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality posted by skl

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634572031730425293 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 08:52:53 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634572031730425293 skl Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality
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posted by Marco Pivetta

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634572042867167735 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 09:11:26 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634572042867167735 Marco Pivetta Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality
Anyone want to share time indices where anything resembling an interesting point sort of tries to show itself?

I'm interested in Metro, but this guy does not know how to give a presentation.

posted by iynque

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634572281769188542 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:49:36 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634572281769188542 iynque Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality posted by Mathis

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634656825394558644 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:15:39 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634656825394558644 Mathis Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality posted by William

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634657094711778833 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:44:31 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634657094711778833 William Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality posted by marcos aurelio

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634658238481972749 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 03:30:48 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634658238481972749 marcos aurelio Re: Designing Metro style: principles and personality
But it wasn't.

Maybe a bit of editing will help.

posted by Dickon

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634660118275707352 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:43:47 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/BUILD2011/APP-395T#c634660118275707352 Dickon