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Its been a while since weve discussed building great user experiences for Windows Phone, so we thought wed check in with designer Jon Bell, who works on the Windows Phone UX team. Jons day job is designing the "communication experience." Jons made a lot of observations about the thousands of apps we see submitted to Windows Phone and had a lot of great points to share about what constitutes an outstanding app. Here are a lot of other great resources to look through as you think about Windows Phone application design: Windows Phone http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/hh202915(v=vs.92).aspx" target="_blank Official User Experience Guidelines Jeff Wilcoxs http://www.jeff.wilcox.name/2011/03/metro-design-guide-v1/" target="_blank "Metro" Design Guide for Developers Windows Phone Design Presentations http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jaimer/archive/2010/08/13/windows-phone-design-day-recordings.aspx" target="_blank 2010 Design Day Event http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Design-Day-del-1-Metro-the-Foundation" target="_blank Metro Style Design http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Design-Day-del-3-Think-Sketch-Wireframe-Prototype" target="_blank Designing Apps http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Design-Day-del-2-Refine-Best-Practices" target="_blank App Design Best Practices http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=167532" target="_blank Prototyping in Blend Windows Phone Design Assets http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=196225" target="_self PSD Templates http://ux.artu.tv/?p=165" target="_blank PNG Grid (Useful in Blend) http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk" target="_self SDK (contains Blend and icons – see prototyping video above) http://silverlight.codeplex.com/releases/view/75888" target="_blank Windows Phone Tool Kit (contains extra controls for prototyping) ... and finally, a great piece by Will Faught on http://blogs.msdn.com/b/wfaught/archive/2010/11/15/transitions.aspx" target="_blank how to use the animated transitions in the Toolkit . Questions? <a class="twitter-mention-button https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?screen_name=LarryALieberman Tweet to @LarryALieberman <img src="http://m.webtrends.com/dcs1wotjh10000w0irc493s0e_6x1g/njs.gif?dcssip=channel9.msdn.com&dcsuri=http://channel9.msdn.com/Feeds/RSS&WT.dl=0&WT.entryid=Entry:RSSView:37f27a0dea5543fca6c1a0dd0161be00
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