Comment Feed for Channel 9 - Silverlight TV 78: Designing Tiles and Splash Screens for Windows Phone (Design Tips Mini Series) http://ak.channel9.msdn.com/ch9/5e8e/c31d74e1-1183-4109-bdfb-9f02011a5e8e/sltv78_100_ch9.jpg Channel 9 - Silverlight TV 78: Designing Tiles and Splash Screens for Windows Phone (Design Tips Mini Series) In this episode, Corrina continues the Design Tips miniseries by sharing her insights on how to create tiles and splash screens for Windows Phone applications. She walks through the process of creating an icon in Expression Design and how to make tiles look good and quickly mesh with Metro. Corrina then shows how to create a splash screen and gives some good tips on how to make the splash screen provide a better user experience. Finally, she walks through some tips to help with working with gradients. This video is packed with tips from Corrina, including some great keyboard shortcuts she uses when working with Expression Design. The main topics Corrina covers are: Importing photos and using them as a stencil for icons Creating a good splash screen that meshes with your app Simple gradient color solutions Relevant links: John's blog and on Twitter (@john_papa) Susan's blog and on Twitter (@susantoddux) Corrina on Twitter (@corrinab) Arturo's blog and on Twitter (@arturot) Tsitsi's blog and on Twitter (@tsitsigora) Follow us on Twitter @SilverlightTV or on the web at http://silverlight.tv en Thu, 23 May 2013 10:33:27 GMT Thu, 23 May 2013 10:33:27 GMT Rev9 Re: Silverlight TV 78: Designing Tiles and Splash Screens for Windows Phone (Design Tips Mini Series) posted by Colin Melia

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-78-Designing-Tiles-and-Splash-Screens-for-Windows-Phone-Design-Tips-Mini-Series#c634462627870000000 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 17:53:07 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-78-Designing-Tiles-and-Splash-Screens-for-Windows-Phone-Design-Tips-Mini-Series#c634462627870000000 Colin Melia Re: Silverlight TV 78: Designing Tiles and Splash Screens for Windows Phone (Design Tips Mini Series) Thanks for the ep, it's great to see the 'Design Tips Series' back.

However just as a note here, the 'non-Microsoft apps' never use the Phone Accent Brush (ie theme color) when they are at the app list. They however do when they are pinned to Startup. Embarassed

At least that's the behavior I'm having with all the 3rd party apps, I would love to know if it's something I'm missing though...

 

Karim

posted by kouhbi

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-78-Designing-Tiles-and-Splash-Screens-for-Windows-Phone-Design-Tips-Mini-Series#c634462648470000000 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:27:27 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-78-Designing-Tiles-and-Splash-Screens-for-Windows-Phone-Design-Tips-Mini-Series#c634462648470000000 kouhbi Re: Silverlight TV 78: Designing Tiles and Splash Screens for Windows Phone (Design Tips Mini Series) @kouhbi:That's a bug which has been fixed in Mango.

posted by DannyM

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-78-Designing-Tiles-and-Splash-Screens-for-Windows-Phone-Design-Tips-Mini-Series#c634462652630000000 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 18:34:23 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-78-Designing-Tiles-and-Splash-Screens-for-Windows-Phone-Design-Tips-Mini-Series#c634462652630000000 DannyM Re: Silverlight TV 78: Designing Tiles and Splash Screens for Windows Phone (Design Tips Mini Series) @DannyM: Nice, good to know.

On a separate note, it's great that you talked about the banding problem which I, personally, used to find annoying. If you've been doing some design, you'll know that there is a few ways to work around it, and like Corina kindly showed it involves overlaying Noise on it so that it removes the uniformity in the bands. However, I would advise Blurring the channels first then add Noise per channel. It tends to generally give better results.

Also, if the gradients look fine on the emulator then you're good to go. I'm referring to a weird issue that affected HTC devices after NoDo update (to be fixed in Mango hopefully), in which the screen colors turn 16-bit instead of the supposed 32-bit. So in these devices, one is very likely to encounter banding in gradients and should probably not worry much about it as long as it renders fine in the Emulator.

Sorry for the long post Big Smile

 

Karim

posted by kouhbi

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-78-Designing-Tiles-and-Splash-Screens-for-Windows-Phone-Design-Tips-Mini-Series#c634462669700000000 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:02:50 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-78-Designing-Tiles-and-Splash-Screens-for-Windows-Phone-Design-Tips-Mini-Series#c634462669700000000 kouhbi Re: Silverlight TV 78: Designing Tiles and Splash Screens for Windows Phone (Design Tips Mini Series) posted by Ian

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-78-Designing-Tiles-and-Splash-Screens-for-Windows-Phone-Design-Tips-Mini-Series#c634463060630000000 Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:54:23 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-78-Designing-Tiles-and-Splash-Screens-for-Windows-Phone-Design-Tips-Mini-Series#c634463060630000000 Ian Re: Silverlight TV 78: Designing Tiles and Splash Screens for Windows Phone (Design Tips Mini Series) The splash screen that you created didn't show up because there were actually 2 projects with the same name (WeatherApplication_Design_End) open in Expression Blend. Maybe you were working with the other one Wink

posted by Moumen

]]> http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-78-Designing-Tiles-and-Splash-Screens-for-Windows-Phone-Design-Tips-Mini-Series#c634471293300000000 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:35:30 GMT http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/SilverlightTV/Silverlight-TV-78-Designing-Tiles-and-Splash-Screens-for-Windows-Phone-Design-Tips-Mini-Series#c634471293300000000 Moumen