Windows phone 7 : "Crashing the Mobile Party"

Windows Phone 7
“Crashing the mobile party”
Nick Harewood
Multipack Presents :
Mobile Development
May 2011

Not a developer – interface designer
Background as web designer since 1999
Focus on application design since 2006
Working with Microsoft tech - specifically Silverlight & other XAML based platforms.

Working on WP7 as a result of experience with apps in general and Silverlight in particular
Mobile context sensitivity and mobile form-factor opens different doors than designing for the web or desktop

Launched October 2010
Windows Mobile
New platform – Silverlight and XNA
Middle ground
Consumer focussed

Developer
Silverlight has well established developer community and toolset, excellent IDE.
Low barrier to entry,
Easy (free) access to devtools

Designer
Strong Visual Language : ‘Metro’
Excellent guidelines & resources
Expression Blend

Consumer
Not an apple clone
Competitive pricing
Recognisable brand and support
Attractive look and feel : “delightful to use”
MS Office, social media & XBOX live

Graphic.ly
For WP7 launch
Learning process
Additional challenges

Link to Graphic.ly demo video
Graphic.ly

FINDaPAD
Scratching an itch
Getting to grips with the platform
Experience first – performance is key

Link to FINDaPAD demo video
FINDaPAD

lessons learnt
Performance is key
Web/Desktop ≠ Mobile
Context works both ways

Huge potential
Playing Catch-up (NoDo)
Mango!
IE9 (native HTML5! ;)
Camera access
Multitasking
Twitter Integration
Bing Audio / Vision / Navigation

Developer links
Toolsmicrosoft.com/expression/windowsphone/
Resourcescreate.msdn.com

Any Questions?
@spacescape
www.space-scape.com
www.xamlninja.com
Nick.Harewood@gmail.com
Photo credit: “Dooky! Pick up the phone!!”
By .m for matthijs on Flickr

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