A lot of very talented people have made some very very good notification center concepts.
But as Dieter Bohn pointed out on a late Mobile Verge cast.....both Android and iOS (which basically use the same concept) allow you to see your notifications without having to leave what ever app you're in.
I think all of the concepts that I've stumbled on involve some form of an app or showing them on the home screen only. So while all arguments against a notification center involve the existence of Live Tiles, we should most definitely keep that reason in play.
The lock screen doesn't cut it, because obviously the phone has to be locked. Using anything that resembles having to open an app to get to the notifications isn't worth implementing.
The window shade simply doesn't make sense obviously. About all I can think of is that the notification hub always lives to the left. On the home screen you pull from the left (like the N9 and Meego) but it has to also work with in apps. It may become an issue with people doing it on accident form within an app though, so I thought perhaps it has to be a a two finger gesture, but again, kind of cumbersome.
I fear that Windows Phone should have been designed from the ground up with this is mind for it to work as intuitively as it should. But having to go back to the home screen and then into the notification center isn't worth implementing at all. It needs to be accessible quickly and easily no matter what you're doing.
But as Dieter Bohn pointed out on a late Mobile Verge cast.....both Android and iOS (which basically use the same concept) allow you to see your notifications without having to leave what ever app you're in.
I think all of the concepts that I've stumbled on involve some form of an app or showing them on the home screen only. So while all arguments against a notification center involve the existence of Live Tiles, we should most definitely keep that reason in play.
The lock screen doesn't cut it, because obviously the phone has to be locked. Using anything that resembles having to open an app to get to the notifications isn't worth implementing.
The window shade simply doesn't make sense obviously. About all I can think of is that the notification hub always lives to the left. On the home screen you pull from the left (like the N9 and Meego) but it has to also work with in apps. It may become an issue with people doing it on accident form within an app though, so I thought perhaps it has to be a a two finger gesture, but again, kind of cumbersome.
I fear that Windows Phone should have been designed from the ground up with this is mind for it to work as intuitively as it should. But having to go back to the home screen and then into the notification center isn't worth implementing at all. It needs to be accessible quickly and easily no matter what you're doing.