WP7 noob, critique my interface please...

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Over the last few days i've been teaching myself windows phone 7 development. It's been going fairly smoothly (only had to use stack overflow once :p) and i've got my second app pretty much done. So just looking for some constructive criticism please :). Mainly on the UI as i'm **** at interfaces :(. The app is for the forums, so I can read/start/reply to threads without fannying around in internet explorer :o. Thanks:)


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Oh and asim18 yes this is what I wanted the icon for, cheers again for that :).

Edit: damn wrong forum, can a mod move this please?
 
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I so wish this was about when I was using WP7! Ah well, hopefully you're still looking after it when I get another WP7 handset! :p

(That's me saying it looks great!)
 
Looks pretty nice. I know it won't be great for screen real estate but are signatures a possibility? In long threads they give a nice visual cue as to who's written what without having to look at their username.
 
icedbullet said:
You didn't use my icon?

:p
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Haha, if I get time im going to put it on the back of a live tile :D

CasKirensys said:
I so wish this was about when I was using WP7! Ah well, hopefully you're still looking after it when I get another WP7 handset! :p

(That's me saying it looks great!)
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Cheers :) Ill keep it updated best I can

Ksanti said:
Looks pretty nice. I know it won't be great for screen real estate but are signatures a possibility? In long threads they give a nice visual cue as to who's written what without having to look at their username.
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Yh sure, Not sure how much time I've got to work on it though so may take a while...
 
Cleeecooo said:
It's crap :mad:




But seriously, I like it (no lime green though :mad:) but I would put grey dividers between posts :)

Good start :D
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You mean like a thick horizontal line?

neil_g said:
Cue the forum app haters..

(please make one for apple)
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Sure, I'll just need an iphone 4s and imac. Email in trust for address, Thursday delivery would be great. Thanks! :p
 
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This is why I really hate WP7. Look at the size of those fonts and the limited info presented on the screen. Its like somewhere there is a real mobile operating system but you have to use it through a tiny letter box and up real close.

e. (not a criticism of the OP, looks like a corker of a app. It is the norm for WP7 I am critical of)
 
How does that work; you scrape the site and parse with regex or is the forum xhtml and you put it into an xmldocument?
 
JBod said:
This is why I really hate WP7. Look at the size of those fonts and the limited info presented on the screen. Its like somewhere there is a real mobile operating system but you have to use it through a tiny letter box and up real close.

e. (not a criticism of the OP, looks like a corker of a app. It is the norm for WP7 I am critical of)
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Its done that way so information overload does not occur though. How much more information would you want on there?

In regards to the OP the UI looks fine, having a quick look there is not much i would change myself. Personally I would NOT incorporate signatures into it though. Keep it simple, it does its job without the need for them.

I might have to hassle you when i get started on my next app :P
 
JBod said:
This is why I really hate WP7. Look at the size of those fonts and the limited info presented on the screen. Its like somewhere there is a real mobile operating system but you have to use it through a tiny letter box and up real close.
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This is what I was most unsure about going from android to wp7, but tbh it hasn't been an issue at all. Although I have made the thread page number a bit smaller because it was unnecessarily big.

Vanquish-Storm said:
In regards to the OP the UI looks fine, having a quick look there is not much i would change myself. Personally I would NOT incorporate signatures into it though. Keep it simple, it does its job without the need for them.
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Yh I think i'll leave signatures out for the moment they kinda detract from the metro-ness of it if you know what I mean :o.

Vanquish-Storm said:
I might have to hassle you when i get started on my next app :P
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Feel free, but bear in mind i've been doing wp7 dev for all of 3 days so am no expert lol :o:p.

Anyway I got quoting working properly now, it also breaks up the posts better. Did a couple other tweaks as well to make the page loading smoother but cant show that in pics....

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Possible improvement: Cut down on the amount of line spacing. If you don't it will be a ball ache to read longer posts compared to reading it on a web page.

Also... you don't need to overdo it. For a web app such this simplicity can be perfect :-)
 
Scougar said:
Possible improvement: Cut down on the amount of line spacing. If you don't it will be a ball ache to read longer posts compared to reading it on a web page.

Also... you don't need to overdo it. For a web app such this simplicity can be perfect :-)
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my only worry doing this would be it'll end up looking cramped. Its definitely worth a try though, I'll see what I can do.

Oh and other than the posts its all done with native controls :)

Edit: i'm assuming you mean the line spacing between posts? As other that that its the same as in the browser.
 
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OK.. maybe it just looks bad in the screens you've shown. Can you show a screen shot of a large block of text from a post rather than multiple quotes?

EDIT: Actually, never mind.. I see there is an example near the top :-) Looks better, the multi quotations make it look very spaced out (Nothing you can do about that really). I take it you can change the size of the font?
 
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