Comment by robertlagrant
6 days ago
If you look at their Metro UI that was very innovative, and looked a lot like "real stuff" less than the equivalent iPhone/Android UIs at the time, from memory.
6 days ago
If you look at their Metro UI that was very innovative, and looked a lot like "real stuff" less than the equivalent iPhone/Android UIs at the time, from memory.
I disagree. Metro UI was ugly, space wasting, and a blight on UI design. I even disliked it on mobile which it was arguably designed for.
Compared to random icons sprinkled across three or four screens? Metro was clean, fast and easily customized, the way a phone should be. The current Android/iPhone UIs are pure slop in comparison.
iPhone is just an evolution of PalmOS, and I think PalmOS was a great operating system all around, including UX.
Unfortunately, development experience (on PalmOS) didn't mirror the usage experience, though.
I actually liked it on mobile. Not fully: it was clunky and almost anti-aesthetic, but it worked, was easy to navigate (where implemented properly; I remember a date calc function that would show the years as a pop-up...) and was a fresh break from the trends at the time.
(Well, I'd better come out of the closet now: Yes, I had a Microsoft mobile phone. But I was not the only one!)
You think it looked more like "real stuff" than the contemporary iOS and Android designs?