More Windows Phone 7 observations, and appreciation.

Windows have released their design guidelines (via Luke Wroblewski’s blog) for the Windows Phone 7 series.

I also recently stumbled on this nugget via IStartedSomething.

Excerpt: 

A number of concept screenshots of early Metro concepts for Windows Phone 7 Series was published in the slides of the “Windows Phone UI and Design Language” session at Microsoft MIX10 this week giving us a rare peek into what Metro could have been.

If one thing’s for sure, large fonts and a text-driven layout was a sure-thing since the beginning. It appears they experimented with a much larger time display and diagonal-placed controls which look kind of cool but one could imagine to be a usability nightmare. Take a look for yourself.

I’m drooling at this because of  its:-

• Beautiful, brilliant use of typography.
• Content as UI.
• Effective and striking use of color.
• A great way of presenting the common task of UI-Design Language.
• Its brutal simplicity, and total disregard for decoration in UI.

Of course we’re still waiting to see how it resonates with users, but it already seems like a dream project come true to have worked with.

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