Comments on: Photoshop your own Windows Phone 7 applications

By: Leafy

Leafy — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:22:18 +0000

I’d actually be interested if the same was provided for Windows 7
[or does it already exist and i'm unaware?]

By: Windows Phone 7 应用界面设计 PSD 资源下载

Windows Phone 7 应用界面设计 PSD 资源下载 — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:49:55 +0000

[...] Long Zheng 的提醒，微软发布了 Windows Phone 7 应用界面设计的 PSD [...]

By: wetworker

wetworker — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:34:49 +0000

Thanks for this!!!
I’m new to this whole app making business but it looks like something I should add to my skill set.
WP7 here I come.

By: Official Microsoft WP7 UI design template for app designers — windows phone 7 apps / WP7 games / Windows Mobile Software

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 03:16:19 +0000

[...] of 28 PSD files and therefore includes most of the design elements used in Windows Phone 7. via istartedsomething.com A collection of 28 layered Photoshop template files that can be used to create pixel-perfect [...]

By: tino

tino — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:24:42 +0000

That is strange. I hope someone from the Windows Phone 7 team can clarify what’s going on with the fonts and why they did change Segoe UI to Segoe WP. I can’t see any advantage but ugly numbers that don’t fit into the look of the other characters (IMHO). And where is a Segoe WP Narrow font? That could really be usefull on such a platform. Oh and finally: why are Bing maps still rendered with Arial?

By: mdtauk

mdtauk — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:21:18 +0000

Now this is interesting…

I am comparing the fonts in the July Beta ROM, to the ones in the original March one.

The Segoe WP N fonts are no more, they have been removed.
The Segoe WP fonts, have been changed and are now copyrighted as 2010 not 2008.

Fonts like Segoe WP Black now have numbers and letter shapes which are consistent with the other WP fonts.

The Segoe UI Bold and Regular fonts, contain serifs on the uppercase I, which is interesting as this was one of the differences between Segoe UI and Zegoe UI.

There are no Zegoe fonts, there are no Segoe UI italic fonts (I assume these if used on webpages map to the Segoe WP italic fonts, if they ever get included)

By: mdtauk

mdtauk — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:42:50 +0000

Zegoe UI Semilight shows up when I drill down into the templates. I am sure it is intended to be Segoe WP Semilight, and whoever built the templates just used it by mistake. (I am daniel-t from the xda forums)

I know Zegoe was created to work well with the Zune HD device, but I am a perfectionist, and it irks me I am missing one of the Zegoe Fonts, regardless of if it is intended to be used or not!

By: Livven

Livven — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:16:05 +0000

Hmm, it seems Microsoft has used Zegoe UI (instead of Segeo WP N, which is identical) in some PSDs, so I’ve zipped all the necessary fonts up and uploaded them here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=728913

By the way, do you know if there’s a semilight variation of the Zegoe UI font? I’ve never seen one, but someone in that thread says it’s been used in some PSDs (I currentöy don’t have Photoshop installed so can’t try it out myself).

By: Livven

Livven — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 18:26:30 +0000

Nice find!

By: mdtauk

mdtauk — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 17:43:26 +0000

“This control is not shipped as a part of the Windows Phone Developer Tools.”

This really annoys me. Templates and controls which developers are expected to use, and are used throughout the phone’s OS UI, should come with the dev tools.

I hope someone is right now, creating some semi-official versions of these controls for devs to use. A member of the Windows Phone UX team, putting them on code-plex, would be good, but not as good as all the controls being included in the Final Dev Tools, we are still only in Beta, so it is possible!