In Awe...How on earth did they design their phones?

[Nogitsune Micah]

I stumbled across this site that was showcasing people's various Start Screens and I just was in awe of how creative and unique some were.

I find it hilarious that we wp users are often bashed because we can't customize to the extent of android or IOS but these windows phone start screens are amazing. I had been saying i wanted to personally organize my Surface and Lumia start screens.

How do they get the text and specific icons? Is there like an app people used?

Here are my 3 faves
1. https://ideasproject.com/idea/-/ideas/1351454
2. https://ideasproject.com/idea/-/ideas/1377729
3.https://ideasproject.com/idea/-/ideas/1368513

 

[WanderingTraveler]

The second idea's borders were created by this app: Group Tiles | Windows Phone Apps+Games Store (United States)

Still going through them.

 

[WanderingTraveler]

Well, for the most part, the apps have their default tiles (or live tiles) enabled.

Whoa. The third idea has Windows Phone Insider. And that flashlight.

 

[Amritash Pathania]

yup really nice .i liked the second one

 

[Nogitsune Micah]

I just really loved the text headers some of these people had for their designs. But i will check out the app you showed me.
Here were some more creative people
https://ideasproject.com/web/personalize_start_screen

The second idea's borders were created by this app: Group Tiles | Windows Phone Apps+Games Store (United States)

Still going through them.

 

[Marconis4]

These are actually garbage compared to what some of us have done, as seen in the thread on the Windows 8 forum. No offense.

 

[Nogitsune Micah]

Better than anything i can do lol

These are actually garbage compared to what some of us have done, as seen in the thread on the Windows 8 forum. No offense.

 

[raycpl]

Today its start screens....
. tomorrow the world...

 

[crash1989]

Amazing, love each of them. They put in quite a lot of effort into making them.

 

[LastBattle]

just spend a couple of minutes to rearrange my home screen not just some boring static icons in competitor's OS.
Great source of inspiration from the above links. thanks..

 

[Jazmac]

These are actually garbage compared to what some of us have done, as seen in the thread on the Windows 8 forum. No offense.

Post your screen.

 

[Ymanish]

How to do that alphabet thing like in the second project???? Plzz help

 

[Rahul Nirwan]

You can also use skinery tiles pro.. Its a nice app for customising the screen

 

[Nogitsune Micah]

Are there any similar apps for windows 8

 

[montsa007]

Why am I alive?

 

[Kamen]

I am pretty new to the OS so I hope this is not a dumb question. In the second one, how did he get that Favorite contacts tile? I looked on the phone and the App Store and had no luck. Thanks in advance for the info.

 

[mpt15]

I am pretty new to the OS so I hope this is not a dumb question. In the second one, how did he get that Favorite contacts tile? I looked on the phone and the App Store and had no luck. Thanks in advance for the info.

Go to the people hub. Create a group of contacts by pressing the "+". You can add some 20-25 contacts per group. then pin it to start

 

[WanderingTraveler]

Go to the people hub. Create a group of contacts by pressing the "+". You can add some 20-25 contacts per group. then pin it to start

As for how it works, it is not similar in function to a Facebook group. It is closer to a list of people to follow.

If you want something close to a Facebook group, there are rooms.