Welcome to the second blog where we talk about the main similarities and differences between the design guidelines of the Windows 8 and the Windows Phone platforms and what this means to designers and developers. In the first blog post we covered:

• Design process
• Layout and navigation

In this part we will take a deeper look at:

• Commands and actions
• Touch
• Orientation and views
• Notifications and live tiles
• Telerik upcoming Windows 8 suite

You can download the full series as:

high resolution pdf (~7 MB), or

low resolution pdf (~2 MB).

Commands and actions

1. Selection

Selection in Windows 8 Selection in WP

In Windows Phone multiselection is available through checkboxes in the listbox. In Windows 8...

As Q2 2011 official release is on its way we would like to share with you part of the visuals the AJAX teams have been working on lately:

Office2010 Blue, Silver and Black skins

 

 

 

The Office2010 appearance is a natural continuation of the Outlook and Office2007 skins. It resembles Microsoft® Office® 2010 look and feel, bringing to the AJAX world the ultimate Office-like web experience. Unlike our Office2007 skin, which is available in Blue theme only, we are now releasing all three Office2010 variations. Making use of the distinctive colors and smooth gradients, just a scroll away – see the new Office2010...

We have just uploaded a contribution to Microsoft’s MVC design contest – a web-design template free for all to use with the MVC framework. Our entry is a clean, simple, blue-themed web-design generic enough to fit a broad range of scenarios. Please feel free to download and jumpstart your next project.

We thought the contest was a great way to further support our clients in their switch to the MVC. Our RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX already boasts full support for the MVC (see live demo, join our forums), so we thought providing an out-of-the-box design solution is a logical next step. Initiatives like this...

Our Community Skin Contest is over! A big thank you goes to all members who generously shared their skins with the rest of the community.

The winners of the Skin Exchange Contest, as voted by our community, are:

1st place - an Xbox and a free RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX + WinForms + Telerik Reporting license goes to Daniel Jonsson in Iceland for his D1040 RadControls Common Skin.



2nd place and a free RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX + WinForms + Telerik Reporting license goes to Miglena Nikolova from Bulgaria for her RadMenu Shade Skin.



3rd place and a free RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX license...

 

A big thank you guys! Tribute to the generosity of you, our community, we now have 50% more skins available for the telerik ASP.NET components. Check out the latest additions in our Skins Exchange Program and feel free to download a copy for your project. Also, don’t forget to vote for your favorite community skin – we have an Xbox and free RadControls licenses waiting for the winners. Voting will close on September, 15th.

Once again, I would like to express our enormous gratitude to everyone who took the time to contribute their custom-made skins to the program. What started as a...

http://internship.dreamture.net is the new blog of this summer's design intern at the UX department here in telerik, where Dimitar Raykov will regularly upload his ongoing work on the weekly internship assignments. Following a successful attempt to accommodate an intern a couple of years ago, this summer we wanted to expand the effort with a program that gives not just a preview of an actual work environment, but also has a more academic side to it with a chance to experiment within the design practice. Before I laid out the program I did some research on existing programs elsewhere but failed to find...

Once again, I am excited to announce the start of a new initiative to improve the user experience with skinning the Telerik controls. We are starting work on a new Visual Style Builder application for the ASP.NET AJAX Controls and a major upgrade of the existing application for the WinForms Controls. The Visual Style Builder will allow easy, point-and-click customization of component skins, eliminating the need to get acquainted with the front-end structure of the controls. The Visual Style Builder will also speed up development of skins across several components - you will be able to define a style once and...

I am enthusiastic to announce the launch of the Telerik Skin Exchange Program – http://www.telerik.com/skins! We have created a meeting place for community members to exchange home-grown skins for the Telerik ASP.NET AJAX components. We know a lot of you have come up with amazing designs for our components and wanted to enable a platform to show these off and help the community. Seeing the tremendous support you guys give to each other every day on our forums and code library, I am confident you will take up on the initiative so we can build up a useful new resource...