New to Metro UI

[datisdesign]

Hi

I am a web and user interface designer, I want to start learning designing metro apps for windows phone

I dont know what tools I need to design metro interfaces, is photoshop enough or not ?

please help

regards

 

[dannejanne]

Metro design is almost only text based in many cases. Photoshop is more than enough to be able to do nice metro design.

Check out these apps for some great metro design reference:

-Metrotube
-Bankhubben
-Handelsbanken
-IMDb
-WPCentral

 

[mprice86]

You might want to have a look at these articles as well:

Design Case Study - iPad to Metro style app

Lessons from Swiss Style Graphic Design

EDIT: It's worth noting that outside of mocking up your designs and making the app tile and splash screen, there's very little requirement for photoshop as 90%+ of a metro app interface is text based and as such is set up in the templates that are part of the SDK.