Designing tips for windows phone:

Designing tips for windows phone:

Panorama control:

•           Acts like a magazine cover.
•           Offers a highlight of what is going on
•           The tile normally has a parallax effect causing the title to run at a different speed than the page
•           One can have multiple panorama, it does not have to the first one. It can be put anywhere in the application.

 Good practice with panorama:

•           Pick at least three themes to showcase, don’t show entire app in panorama
•            Surface the highlights of the content to encourage exploration into the application
•           Make them immersive and showcase your brand as much as possible
•           Limit the number of panes to five to increase effectiveness of the panorama page, and avoid lagging when dragging
•           Vary the layout/content types in panes and prevent using the same layout.  Don’t have list after list
•           Avoid putting too much functionality on panorama control, like search box, adding, removing, editing should be don’t in a separate page. Panorama is all about the overview.
•           Don’t place the entire content of your app in the panorama. It’s supposed to showcase but don’t give everything out.

         next addition will be pivot control. stay tuned