aubreyq
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I felt compelled to click "No" because the question said "too often." If it read "Do you think sometimes space is overused/underused?" then I would've answered yes.
Its Zune. Exactly the same on the Zune devices.
The whole thing with text running off the screen is part of the Metro style and design. That's essentially its "signature" and I honestly don't see that going away. I actually like it and also like the large tiles. It differentiates WP from other OSs. Regarding app grouping, I hope the rumor is true that Tango will bring that to the user, especially if it can be done in an elegant fashion.The UI does waste a lot of screen real estate on white/blank space. Tiles really don't have to be that big, and there should be a way to group apps on the Start Screen (sorry!), the app list needs some work. Text runs off the screen with no way to see what things really are... The header in many apps and hubs serves no purpose but to waste space. I'd rather they just had a splash screen or something, personally.
I agree that landscape UI support would be nice, but again, the core Metro UI will probably never be altered the way you mention.My biggest issue with Zune is the lack of Landscape support, leading to issues like in the attached image. If the problem isn't obvious, then I dunno what to say. Imagine downloading a 50 track Opera from Zune and having it be completely unreadable because the titles are cut off and you can't even flip the screen to landscape to get useful information on each track... Shrinking the text would also help.
Sorry, but text running off the screen like that coupled with the lack of landscape support is beyond sloppy.
That might work if all the text on the screen scales accordingly, but again, Microsoft probably won't go for it because it affects the Metro's look and feel in general.And how about a setting to control text size? Wouldn't that be brilliantly innovative in 2012?
That might work if all the text on the screen scales accordingly, but again, Microsoft probably won't go for it because it affects the Metro's look and feel in general.
I didn't realize the keyboard wasn't fully extended in Landscape. That's a major oversight.
Sounds like you're misapplying a general concept in design to something that is not actually great design, and that would make you a bad designer, if you actually are one.Sounds like you're not a designer.
I like WP7, but it tries so hard to be different from the other two that it has gone so far off as to misuse things like space usage. I want to get a Nokia device when Apollo comes out, but Apollo needs to refine the UI before WP can be taken seriously by most people and not just appreciated because it's so DIFFERENT from the major OS'sSometimes I wonder why people have a wp7. I read what they say they want, and it sounds just like android, or ios.
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This is what I was talking about in this post. The text running off the screen serves no purpose to the user. It's just about trying to be different. Good design is ALWAYS purposeful.The whole thing with text running off the screen is part of the Metro style and design. That's essentially its "signature" and I honestly don't see that going away.
If it absolutely makes typing easier, why do some people in this thread not like having the keyboard be centered? If it does as you say, everybody would think it was fine as is.That's not an oversight. I remember they mentioned it in a really old video when WP7 was in development. The reason is, if they extended the keyboard, it wouldn't be centered because the menu bar covers some space on the right. So it's a design decision to make typing easier, having the keyboard on the center of the screen.
This is what I was talking about in this post. The text running off the screen serves no purpose to the user. It's just about trying to be different. Good design is ALWAYS purposeful.
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If it absolutely makes typing easier, why do some people in this thread not like having the keyboard be centered? If it does as you say, everybody would think it was fine as is.
Good design when it comes to gadgets is always nice looking and functional.Heheh and what if that purpose was for aesthetics? Does that make it "bad" design because your idea of purpose must be functional?
Not if the product actually benefits everybody, as Microsoft's design is intended to do.That's kind of weird logic. You can have people still disagree on the implementation of something that was intended for a benefit.
Sounds like you're misapplying a general concept in design to something that is not actually great design, and that would make you a bad designer, if you actually are one.
Appreciate the comment but to be clear, I was referring to N8ter in my remarks, not the OP, although in general, it appears that there's a few of our members here that are probably on the wrong platform and would be better off switching to the competition until WP wins them backI agree with aubreyq's sense that the original poster may have landed on the wrong platform.