svetius: "jump to your device" -- shouldn't this go above the dropdown so no rollover
Hey I cannot quarrel with the man who brought Youtube embeds within 48 hours or initial request... (btw, am I the only one using it? ... wait, let me answer that: yes. But I like it, so thank you !)
That pair of "quick navigation to your phone" tools at top right has been really great. It's just that enroute to using the text box to type in "desire" I almost always rollover the dropdown which causes an obstruction to my desired objective.
You probably wrestled with this and have reasons for the way you did it. But just in the event you were really really smashed that night and really had no rationale whatsoever and just flipped a coin, are you open to trying to flip the two...
Another unsolicited usability comment in the spirit of improvement. The xda favicon is such a welcome change from the boring vBulletin v, but I find it hard to read.
Did you ever come across how they went about remaking the YouTube favicon to improve its readability? It sounded very esoteric by god it did the job... A reader submitted it -- and YouTube took her up on it, and adopted it:
2 similar reads about it, with images:
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http://typophile.com/node/60577
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-09-16-n27.html
About the drop down...in the forum redesign we're working on, you must click the drop down to get it to open.
About the fav icon...feel free to make one that is better than the current. All of us are quite pleased by the new icon. It's not perfect, but making a legible 16x16 graphic is very difficult.
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Hello to All!
I started some Workshop about Future of Mobile Windows Devices for
- Interface and OS and
- Hardware-Sugegstions
and i want to invite all of you to be Part of this and add your Concepts, Comments and Ideas.
In my Powerpoint-Presentation i worked out some Concept for A 3D-Interface for Explorer, Messaging, Filereader and some Applications-Manager (instead of A Homescreen). Here is the Link, this is about 20MB, because i put in A Lot of Screenshots and Sketches of my Idea.
Within this, you can overview everything on the first View - and there you find Illustrations of an animated graphical 3D-Interface for easy exploring with Thumbnails of everything that is running.
My Idea includes A Concept for making Sessions of what you are doing (opened Programms, Web-Sessions, Multimedia-Sessions, Sessions for Volume, -for Settings, so that you can share whole Devices at once, ...).
Everything is presented to you in horizontal-moving Rings with Icons Rows and Thumbnails of Folders-Content:
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You can preview the Content of A Folder in Background-Icons (Levels) as Thumbnails when you hold your Finger on an Icon,
Menus and Settings and Explorer+ Readers are sorted and put together in 1 Interface - that is my Vision for Windows-Phone 7 Series and later Versions.
-Within the Apps-Manager you watch:
I also want to share with you my Idea of revolutionary Hardware-Features for Windows-Devices and how that could be realized.
Please feel free to let me know your Thoughts for some animated Interface and let's talk about your Suggestions for Future of Windows-Mobile Devices (-Should Win. be more the Way of MP3-Player or of A Tablet-PC?) and please publish Illustrations of your Thoughts and Concepts here, also Comments of the new MS Phone-Concept.
"Let's create Future"
While innovative, I think that looks very over-designed. Not sure that it would be very user friendly... perhaps too flashy.
nice
but i think Microsoft had gone through lots of designs before they chose the new one!
Wow you sure seem to be talented! But not quite sure if you're using it in the right place!
Too many icons
What do you guys think of this Camera Concept for Windows Phone ? click for more screens via 1800PocketPC
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is out yet on xap
Nice,
when it's ready ?
Did anybody care to read the article or is at least capable of understanding the meaning of "concept"? These are just pictures. The designer is currently looking for developers for this concept.
I don't like it - I think it doesn't fit into WP7.
I was at a conference at Microsoft's HQ where they talked about Windows 8 and Metro.
They took an old fashioned RSS reader and slowly 'converted' it to Metro, as they explain every step. From what I understand, In WP7:
You display on the main area only whats needed - otherwise there's the [...] area for settings and configurations (called the App Bar).
Element design is kept to a minimum - jagged edges are too much, also, the borders around the icons are too much.
The circular elements don't fit well into a squared environment.
It's really nice designed. Shame I can't help, need to learn new technologies I am at .net aspx jquery ajax
This will depend on the OEM pretty much and what the Radio version / Firmware allow the camera to do.
for me its to much on the screen, if the first picture should represent it in use??? the screws are to much and to big. i know it should be like on an DSLR but its to much, it has nothing with metro to do.
I see RETRO here
BTW I could buy as appears in the Market
Can I ask why right clicking on this forum has been replaced with some annoying third party look "contextual" search thing. It's really annoying
Moved to About XDA section.
i think its gr8
I finally got annoyed enough by it to come here posting about it, but I figure I'll resurrect this thread rather than start my own.
In a nutshell, the Contextual Search "feature" is about on par with Clippy.
'nuff said
You should still have the right click menu though...
Not when anything is selected, which is when it is usually used. I can't think of a single time the "contextual search" has ever been useful.
Had an epiphany that I could add a filter to Adblock. If anyone else cares to know, just add "searchlight_ctextsearch.js" to your custom filters. Yay! No more stupid counter productive "feature"!
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Not when anything is selected, which is when it is usually used. I can't think of a single time the "contextual search" has ever been useful.
Had an epiphany that I could add a filter to Adblock. If anyone else cares to know, just add "searchlight_ctextsearch.js" to your custom filters. Yay! No more stupid counter productive "feature"!
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Nope.
Contextual search only appears if you click the magnifying glass next to the selected text.
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Just disable it then?
Go to options and uncheck "Enable Contextual Search".
I did that ages ago as I didn't really use that feature either.
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sheoli and
i still have my right click menu
I'm going to try my hand at making some request widgets. Get crazy with it, I wanna really push the envelope on my learning curve. Go nuts.
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Hi, Im a newb.
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I'm going to try my hand at making some request widgets. Get crazy with it, I wanna really push the envelope on my learning curve. Go nuts.
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Hello!
I was trying to learn all the date functions, #DRd , #DRm' , et al. but I cant seem to find a solution for my very simple problem.
Im trying to count (and display) the number of days, hours, minutes that have passed since I did something (like shave or watch pr0n).
Im really frustrated, all I had were the built-ins (which seemed to always count to a future date and not up from a date). Title says it all. Cheers!
How about an sunrise sunset arc countdown bar.
Basically, I have a picture of the earth on my wallpaper and I want to see if a status bar can decline around half the globe from sun-up to sun-down. Like one would do with a battery percentage or a clock.
Thanks.
Not really that hard of a request (to you at least) but I really want this clock theme on Zooper since mClock doesnt work for me. Heres a pic and also the .xml from mClock not sure if its workable with Zooper. Thanks for your consideration.
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Been toying around and learning LUA nad made a few faces. Please feel free to provide feedback
First up I called speed dial - Fairly straight forward - Hour hand on the outside and minutes/seconds share the inner dial.
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https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5rGlzN6ezjnVmlrd3luN1RBVTQ/view?usp=sharing
Next up I named Radar - The sweeping second hand, well sweeps like radar. Also, the red spot on the inner circle is the batter percentage traveling around the circle.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5rGlzN6ezjnc2FSTlMxbm9mdFk/view?usp=sharing
Lastly (for now) I named this one simply Rotation. Is is a play off the stock rotator face. Sweeping seconds dial.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5rGlzN6ezjnXzVPUUwwVm1jOVk/view?usp=sharing
When I read watchfaces by a noob I thought... Anyway I love two out the 3 and they are on my phone. Well done and thanks! The 3d is good but I've one like it. The best is the first IMO. Looks like a car speedo.
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Thanks, I seem to toggle between the radar one and the speed dial one most. Just getting into the designing so who knows what else may come to mind
like the last one!
post it on watchmaker's google+ page too! there's a lot of activity there
the last is beautiful
Thanks guys, ironically its the one I use the least. Will be uploading a few more today
Here are the next two, same thing just one light one dark.
Dark -
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5rGlzN6ezjnOWpXZFJmR1ZBdjQyYTJJWHVaZEFSYmgzSFZN/view?usp=sharing
Light -
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5rGlzN6ezjncElxSkdqZXIxUDY3cGR2RmlPUERQdzFRdW1V/view?usp=sharing
Have a new one called Hypnotic. Will be up on the PlayStore for free tomorrow. Please check it out, dont fall asleep
https://play.google.com/store/search?q=misterowl&c=apps