A little hash out fact about the Nokia - Microsoft partnership is that Nokia has permit to create customs duty Windows Phones pelt for its own equipment . And while they have yet to do anything , these aver ( and stomach - churning ) mockupsfrom a Nokia senior graphic designer in the R&D department not only show what a custom Nokia hide might look like , but also provide the strong argument for why Nokia ( oranyone , really ) should n’t position so much as a finger on the Windows Phone UI .
https://gizmodo.com/themes-for-windows-phone-7-are-a-travesty-5867613
The trope were drudged up by PocketNow who say that Nokia assume no responsibility for the plan ( Nokia say the piece of work should be considered a character project of the designer , though Nokia acknowledged the designer was employee at the time ) . Above and beyond the fact that this design totally counteract everything that fix Windows Phone so great , it looks like it was designed by the somebody who designed the Orbitz website circa-2005 . Form and function are not cohesively unified . In fact , it see like function was tossed out the window entirely . This is ostentation for the sake of flashing . macerate space , overcloud information and—UGH—skeuomorphic design are recurring composition here .
And maybe this should n’t come as a stupor , study Nokia used the Symbian political program to commit numerous design barbarity . But man , what was Microsoft thinking when it opened up the remotest of possibilites for Nokia to amount in and possibly lie its lascivious hand all over the pure , innocent Metro UI ( away from the fact that it was desperate for a high - profile partnership for their fledgling operating system ) ? Maybe I ’m get a bit fanatical , consider this is very much just a concept , and the designer responsible for mostly focused on Symbian and does n’t work for Nokia anymore . But goddamn , this is what it pays their designers for ?
Despite all that , there ’s some good that can be press out from this arrangement that Nokia weaseled its means into and that good would come in the course of a photographic camera app . Because if Nokia going to start stuffing Windows Phones with the PureView applied science , it needs a proper app to go with it The stock camera app on Windows Phone is terrible . It ’s slow . You do n’t exploit to focus , you knock to shoot . Zooming is carried out in rigid increments . Nokia could likely end up doing some good in this expanse .
There ’s also some solace in the fact that in brief after the partnership was announced , Nokia ’s CTO posit that he had no desire to mess with Microsoft ’s design . But thing always change . company interchange their mind . I just go for Nokia does n’t cozen itself into thinking that a Motorola - esque WP7 peel would be good for anyone .
Because it would n’t . [ PocketNow ]
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