Windows Pocket Concept
Surely everyone is familiar with Pocket - an application that allows you to save interesting materials from the network for later reading. Pocket is present on all major platforms, with the exception of Windows and Windows Phone. Now we are talking about the official client. There are quite a few unofficial clients in the Windows store and in the Windows Phone store that allow you to use the service. What is the application POKI .
However, for Windows, there is still no adequate client that could provide full access to all the functions of the service. And since in e-Legion we love WP and W8 and have a great deal of expertise in developing for these platforms, our designer Vladimir Morochkovsky decided to demonstrate what Pocket for Windows can be.
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The success of any application is the navigation and interface logic. The application can be as beautiful as you like, but if it has illogical navigation and does not solve the user's tasks, it will be deleted.
Windows provides two principles for organizing navigation: a flat model and a hierarchical one.
Most users use Pocket for reading only. It looks like this: I add the material, then I read it, then either transfer it to the archive or to my favorites. Thus, I do not place tags, do not use the inbox and other functions.
It turns out that all the rarely used functions are best moved outside the main scenario (add / read / delete). From all this it follows that navigation is best suited here, in which the hierarchical model will dominate.
Another interesting and convenient script that allows you to implement Windows 8.1 is the addition of materials to the sheet.
If someone has tried IE 10 for surfing the Internet in tablet mode, will confirm how really convenient it is.
I don’t know how the work on products at Microsoft works, but the IE 10 team did a really cool thing.
Another interesting feature that allows you to implement the panel with the miracle buttons is a search by application.
Yes, with the arrival of Windows 8.1, the search has changed a bit. Now developers are encouraged to do a standard search embedded in the application page. The most striking example is the application store (Windows store).
But no one has canceled the convenient and more ergonomic “combined search”. How does he work?
The essence of the "combined search" is that the entire search, whether it is a search on the contents of a computer or a search on an application, lives in one place - in the wonder-button SEARCH.
This approach offers the widest range to perform a search.
Here, too, everything is cool. All the same wonderful buttons come to the rescue. We open material, we click to share, we select the channel, we send.
Moreover, all these scenarios make life easier for users, designers and developers.
And the output is a clean interface ... Zen.
I believe that all the hype around the tiled interface in the context of "not convenient, not understandable, sucks" is far-fetched and exaggerated.
Well, see for yourself how the “tile approach” captures all possible interfaces. Sites, applications, payment terminals. Yes, any interface. And the point here is not at all that Microsoft is well done, everything was invented, and everything was picked up. Not. Simply, it is very logical and timely.
Dead Tile - dead application. It is like a window from which nothing is visible.
Tile - entry point. The link between the user and your application. It is the tile that motivates the user to launch the application at the moment when the application wants to receive the user's attention.
In the case of Pocket, the tile scrolls through the list of the three most recently added materials. In the format of picture + text.
Using the example of the Pocket application concept, I showed 5 main advantages of Windows 8.1, which allow minimal forces to make an application comfortable and unique without losing functionality along the way.
The full concept can be viewed at the link . For WP and W8 apps straight to e-Legion . And, of course, I will be glad to answer questions in the comments.
However, for Windows, there is still no adequate client that could provide full access to all the functions of the service. And since in e-Legion we love WP and W8 and have a great deal of expertise in developing for these platforms, our designer Vladimir Morochkovsky decided to demonstrate what Pocket for Windows can be.
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Navigation
The success of any application is the navigation and interface logic. The application can be as beautiful as you like, but if it has illogical navigation and does not solve the user's tasks, it will be deleted.
Windows provides two principles for organizing navigation: a flat model and a hierarchical one.
Most users use Pocket for reading only. It looks like this: I add the material, then I read it, then either transfer it to the archive or to my favorites. Thus, I do not place tags, do not use the inbox and other functions.
It turns out that all the rarely used functions are best moved outside the main scenario (add / read / delete). From all this it follows that navigation is best suited here, in which the hierarchical model will dominate.
Adding material
Another interesting and convenient script that allows you to implement Windows 8.1 is the addition of materials to the sheet.
If someone has tried IE 10 for surfing the Internet in tablet mode, will confirm how really convenient it is.
I don’t know how the work on products at Microsoft works, but the IE 10 team did a really cool thing.
Search
Another interesting feature that allows you to implement the panel with the miracle buttons is a search by application.
Yes, with the arrival of Windows 8.1, the search has changed a bit. Now developers are encouraged to do a standard search embedded in the application page. The most striking example is the application store (Windows store).
But no one has canceled the convenient and more ergonomic “combined search”. How does he work?
The essence of the "combined search" is that the entire search, whether it is a search on the contents of a computer or a search on an application, lives in one place - in the wonder-button SEARCH.
This approach offers the widest range to perform a search.
Share stuff
Here, too, everything is cool. All the same wonderful buttons come to the rescue. We open material, we click to share, we select the channel, we send.
Moreover, all these scenarios make life easier for users, designers and developers.
And the output is a clean interface ... Zen.
Live tiles
I believe that all the hype around the tiled interface in the context of "not convenient, not understandable, sucks" is far-fetched and exaggerated.
Well, see for yourself how the “tile approach” captures all possible interfaces. Sites, applications, payment terminals. Yes, any interface. And the point here is not at all that Microsoft is well done, everything was invented, and everything was picked up. Not. Simply, it is very logical and timely.
Dead Tile - dead application. It is like a window from which nothing is visible.
Tile - entry point. The link between the user and your application. It is the tile that motivates the user to launch the application at the moment when the application wants to receive the user's attention.
In the case of Pocket, the tile scrolls through the list of the three most recently added materials. In the format of picture + text.
Summary
Using the example of the Pocket application concept, I showed 5 main advantages of Windows 8.1, which allow minimal forces to make an application comfortable and unique without losing functionality along the way.
The full concept can be viewed at the link . For WP and W8 apps straight to e-Legion . And, of course, I will be glad to answer questions in the comments.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/216237/
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