Microsoft Design Style

Jeff Fong, the Design lead for Windows Phone kicks-off Windows Phone design day with his overview of Metro. This video is part of the Windows Phone Design Days Series.

Jeff Arnold, Lead Motion Designer for Windows Phone uncovers the core animations and the principles behind motion on Windows Phone 7. This video is part of the Windows Phone Design Days Series

$0Windows Phone 7 constitutes a dramatic new user experience paradigm. The Metro UI design language and the Windows Phone UI design together promote seamless interactions and great end user experiences. As developers, we have the option to follow the Metro guidelines and create Windows Phone…

Rhon Manlapaz and Ryan Bickel deconstruct a Windows Phone application and show you how the core controls and interactions blend together to create beautiful, emotional experiences. This video is part of the Windows Phone Design Days Series

Tracey Lovejoy, Experience Researcher in Windows Phone team shares her research on Anna and Miles, the Life Maximizers who need a Windows Phone. This video is part of the Windows Phone Design Days series.

 This video covers the basics of setting up a Windows Store app project in Visual Studio 2012 for the Windows Phone 7 app we are going to migrate. We also discuss the migration strategy, scoping the features within the port, and the advantages of using a Windows Store project…

  This video covers the basics of working with data in the Windows 8 Khan Academy app. We go over the new asynchronous pattern in WinRT for handling requests to and from the server, as well as putting together the Data Model for our app. If you have never worked with async patterns before, the…

Host Jonathan Rozenblit goes through the monthly developer news: Announced today: Windows 8 officially RTM'd Save the date: Windows 8 General Availability - October 26, 2012 Windows 8 Upgrade offer Announcing //build 2012 - Registration opens 8.8.2012 at 8AM PDT (stay tuned to…

Today's Metro Monday project is a framework that will help you in your creation of Windows 8 Metro Style applications, helping take a little of the grunt work out, while helping build applications with some separation of concerns. Plus I dig how it uses MEF to compose a navigable application.…

Writing a RSS reader used to be the new Hello World app (now I think it's writing a Twitter app, but anyway...) so when saw this great walk-through for creating a Metro Style App that consumes an RSS feed I thought it would make for a perfect Metro Monday post. Then when I saw the author was using…