SNEAK PEEK: New Silverlight application themes
Tim Heuer
Thu, Mar 11th 7:45 PM
pem‘Twas the week before MIX, when all through the tubes br /Not a developer was sleeping, not even the noobs./em/p pemThe laptops were paved removed of their glitz br /In hopes that they soon will get some new bits./em/p pemA developer was coding, building an app br /Trying to build the next greatest XAP/em/p pemBattleship gray?! Now that’s obscene br /Check our designers’ latest theme/em/p pOkay, so I’m not going to win any poetry awards. Our UX design team for a href="http://silverlight.net"Silverlight/a has been thinking about app building a lot this past year, gathering valuable input from developers, designers and end-users about how people interact with applications, primarily emline-of-business/em applications (lt;shuttergt;I hate that termlt;/shuttergt;). Hot off the press here is a preview of some of the things we’ve been thinking about from a XAML theme perspective./p pFirst, I present to you codename emGrayscale/em. Some subtle twists on existing base themes but not detracting too much from the ‘traditional’. (a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/timheuer/4426095286/sizes/o/"larger view here/a)./p pimg style="margin: 0px auto; display: block; float: none" title="Grayscale Silverlight Theme" alt="Grayscale Silverlight Theme" src="http://storage.timheuer.com/grayscale-sampleapp.jpg" //p pUp next is codename emWindows Theme/em (yeah, original I know, gimme a break here I’m making these up). Taking a cue from Windows 7 system design, this theme brings familiarity to the end-user. (a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/timheuer/4425329927/sizes/o/"larger view here/a)./p pimg style="margin: 0px auto; display: block; float: none" title="Windows Silverlight Theme" alt="Windows Silverlight Theme" src="http://storage.timheuer.com/wintheme-sample-app.jpg" //p pAnd finally, emMetro/em. Taking a cue perhaps from Zune desktop (and device) software design, a clean but fun theme for any application (a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/timheuer/4426095220/sizes/o/"larger view here/a)./p pimg style="margin: 0px auto; display: block; float: none" title="Metro Silverlight Theme" alt="Metro Silverlight Theme" src="http://storage.timheuer.com/white-sample-app.jpg" / br /So there you have some preview of some Silverlight application themes we’ve been playing around with. I know the design team is enthusiastic about getting these in the hands of developers/designers. /p pWhat do you think?/p div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:8c40ba01-0e13-4c99-a453-6cfc311671ef" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"span class="tags"tags: a href="http://timheuer.com/blog/tags/silverlight/default.aspx" rel="tag"silverlight/a, a href="http://timheuer.com/blog/tags/xaml/default.aspx" rel="tag"xaml/a, a href="http://timheuer.com/blog/tags/themes/default.aspx" rel="tag"themes/a, a href="http://timheuer.com/blog/tags/templating/default.aspx" rel="tag"templating/a, a href="http://timheuer.com/blog/tags/templates/default.aspx" rel="tag"templates/a, a href="http://timheuer.com/blog/tags/metro/default.aspx" rel="tag"metro/a, a href="http://timheuer.com/blog/tags/riaservices/default.aspx" rel="tag"riaservices/a, a href="http://timheuer.com/blog/tags/ria/default.aspx" rel="tag"ria/a, a href="http://timheuer.com/blog/tags/wpf/default.aspx" rel="tag"wpf/a/span/div br /div class="wlWriterHeaderFooter" style="margin:0px; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;"hr /div class="cc-license"This work is licensed under a a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"Creative Commons Attribution By license./a/div/divimg src="http://timheuer.com/blog/aggbug/14712.aspx" width="1" height="1" /
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