Windows Phone design style or integration with iOS apps

“Metro is our design language, we call it ‘Metro& rsquo; because it is trendy and simple, fast and dynamic. It is designed around content and fonts and is completely authentic, which is Microsoft's interpretation of the Windows Phone 7, Windows 8, and Windows Phone 8 interface design styles. The Metro interface features clean lines, stylish icons and Segoe UI fonts that contrast sharply with Apple's linen and leather backgrounds.

Some recent apps suggest that Metro and iOS will align in the future. Coupled with Apple's former iOS director Scott & bulk; Scott Forstall's departure, Apple's design style has undergone a potential change. More people asked Apple to abandon the leather background design and make changes last month.

Recently, some popular apps have begun to try Metro styles, such as music streaming service Rdio, spelling game Letterpress and Twitter client Twitterrific 5, each application has a lot of blanks, focusing on layout, concise and color Bright.

Although these apps look very different from Apple's Contacts app, Calendar, Find my Friends, and Passbook, they are still well integrated into the iOS platform, and they have other Metro style apps. Have fun elements such as LetterP's bop and boop (random sounds in the game), or the best drop-down refresh animation in Twitterrific 5.

Fun and user-focused interface is the foundation of Apple's user interface strategy. Apple may be in interactive design "as I said, not what I said", the best example of this theory, although Apple's own application may be quite ugly, but people usually think that the iOS platform has all The best app on the mobile platform (Google introduced the Holo interface in the latest Android system, but developers don't seem to be very fluent about it).

Some apps combine two interface styles. The Tumblr iPhone app has the same style as the iOS system, but its “post” interface is filled with a grid of text and icons, and the travel app Day One has a similar design. “Good design” is changing from Apple’s thickness to Microsoft’s simplicity.

So far this shift has been limited to apps developed on the iOS platform. Apple Game Center still looks the same, Find my Friends still has more leather design, Passbook has not changed much. But the situation began to change, and the appearance of Jonathan Ive made people see hope.

& ldquo; Senior Vice President of Industrial Design Ivey has a high taste and best design skills, now he is responsible for user interface design & rdquo;, Apple CEO Tim & Bull; Tim Cook Said, "The face of the iPhone is software, iPad is also, Ivy has made outstanding contributions in leading hardware design, we now let him be responsible for the software part, but not the underlying architecture, but the appearance and use of the software." ;

Ivy designed the iPhone and iPad. In addition to the extensive use of glass and aluminum materials, both devices have clean, clean lines that focus on the user experience.

Developers are adopting Metro design styles, and if Ivey adopts the same approach to hardware design in software design, he will do well. The impact of Microsoft's design language is not commensurate with the Windows Phone market share.