Windows 8应用设计指南：打造卓越体验的关键要素

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Chapter 1 | Microsoft Design Style Inspirations

to the tile. Great examples to look at to see this effect in action are the Travel,

Finance, Weather, News, and People applications that come with Windows 8.

They are constantly updating with information. It keeps the Start screen fresh

and dynamic. The more useful information your tile can animate through on

a regular basis, the more likely the user is to keep your application pinned in

an easily viewable location on their Start screen. I’ll go into more detail about

Live Tile design in Chapter 6.

Summary

In this chapter, you’ve taken a tour of some of the inspirations that were

fundamental to the creation of the Microsoft Design Style. You have learned

about the focus on minimalism that was a characteristic of the Bauhaus move-

ment and saw how it can simplify our applications. You then explored the

clean typography and bold use of colors of the International Typographic Style

and looked at how that style contributes to the character of Windows 8 apps.

Finally, in the discussion of cinematography and motion design, you learned

how these concepts can keep your applications feeling alive and dynamic. In

Chapter 2, I’ll introduce the five principles that guide successful Microsoft

Design Style and show you how to employ them in your app design.

Chapter 2 | Microsoft Design Style Principles

It bears repeating that the five principles listed above are not marketing speak, even

though they may seem to be at first. When I initially heard these principles while

attending BUILD 2011 sessions, I thought they sounded like a bunch of buzzwords.

After learning their importance, however, it began to make sense to me why they are

expressed as they are. The whole purpose of marketing phrases is for them to stick in

your mind. If you can attach some meaning to a phrase, and that phrase can stick in

your mind, you are much more likely to think about the associations you’ve attached

to the phrases when the time comes to apply them. So, bear with me. I promise to

attach some meaning to each of these phrases so that they can stick in your mind for

beneficial reasons rather than because they recall cheesy marketing speak.

Show Pride in Craftsmanship

Merriam-Webster defines the word ‘craftsman’ as “one who creates or per-

forms with skill or dexterity.” The word craftsman is often associated with

physical trades such as carpentry or jewel crafting. However, you can and

should treat software as a craft. Craftsmen begin to practice their trades as

apprentices and are forever honing their skills in an effort to become expert

at their profession. Craftsmen will practice every day to ensure that they are

becoming better at what they do. True craftsmen will understand how far

they have come since apprenticeship and will apply the knowledge acquired

in the past to future endeavors. Craftsmen will use the right tool for the right

job to the best of their abilities, in order to achieve the best possible results.

Ultimately, it all comes down to pride. The best definition of ‘pride’ that I have

seen that fits this context is “a feeling or deep pleasure or satisfaction derived

from one’s own achievements.” We must be proud of our work. If you treat

your software design work as a craft and truly put your best effort into it, it

will be hard not to be proud of the outcome.

For Windows 8 and Microsoft design in general, there are some key concepts

that arise from this idea of showing pride in craft. The key concepts I’ll focus

on are the following:

Sweat the details.•

Make it safe and reliable.•

Align to the grid.•

Sweat the Details

When it comes to software design on a platform with a strong design lan-

guage, it should come as no surprise that details really matter. Taking a look

PRINCIPLES, NOT MARKETING PHRASES

Designing for Windows 8

at the vast landscape of applications available for Windows 7 and earlier ver-

sions, one can see what happens when there is not a strong sense of design

guidance. Traditionally, Windows has not been a place where users of various

applications have been able to have a sense of consistency from one applica-

tion to the next. Sure, within some application suites, such as Adobe Creative

Suite or Microsoft Office, there is some level of consistency. However, com-

paring even those two suites against each other reveals myriad differences in

how to design key user functionality. It’s not just functionality, however, that

suffers from this lack of consistency: the whole design aesthetic suffers as well.

From application to application, there is simply no sense of a common per-

sonality on Windows 7 and previous versions of Windows. This isn’t really a

fault of developers or designers. Users simply weren’t provided strong enough

guidance for newer applications, and older applications with even older design

ideas continue to run alongside them. This all changes with Windows 8 and

the Microsoft design language.

It’s time to care about the details. And not merely care about them, but truly

sweat them. There are very strong design guidelines for Windows 8 applica-

tions that have been designed to ensure a higher level of platform consistency

from application to application. For example, the page header for each appli-

cation should have a left margin of 120 pixels and a baseline 100 pixels from

the top. When you switch from application to application, you can see that

the headers consistently align in this location. If you did not pay attention to

even this one detail in the design guidance, your application would stick out

like a sore thumb. Users will become accustomed to the consistency in the

platform, and if you don’t sweat every detail in your application design, you

may find your application unappealing. Microsoft has provided you with a very

good set of design guidelines for your applications to follow, and it is in your

best interests to make sure your designs adhere to them.

Sweat the Details in Running Total

Taking a look at the Running Total application, one can quickly get the feeling

that the designers spent a lot of time on the details. Many of the colors chosen

for the design come directly from the large image that takes up a big portion

of the initial screen. The running theme of the application has been reinforced

not only by this image but also in the background of the pages (see Figure 2-1).

Great care has been taken to ensure that the fonts used in the application are

within the set of fonts defined for Windows 8. The designers, both interaction

designers and information architects, also thought about what type of data

was relevant on each screen and showed only what was most appropriate for

each level of the application hierarchy. This type of attention to detail is very

important when building Windows 8 applications.

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