[WIP] As Yet Untitled Metro/Win8/Xbox 2012 Skin

While I'm not a fan of the "metro" style UI on a desktop - I think it works well for touchscreens and remote control apps... and what you've shown for XBMC will work great, and look great too.

definitely following this skin

For a name... how about Squarish Rectangulary Thingies... jk. How about 'Tiles'

Wow!!!! Great work.

Would be great if each "part" of XBMC could be split out into a separate tile in Win8, and then load into something that looks like what you posted. (I know it is well out of the scope of what you are doing, just saying).

Sexy, there can not be enough Metro inspired skins! :-)

Thanks very much for all of your replies. I am working on the home screen and should have some screens up later in the week or over the weekend. I play on following the Win8 - Xbox media apps as closely as possible, but with the more fluid transitions, etc that XBMC provides. Thanks again, and I'll keep you posted on my progress. BTW, I do like the name "Tiles"!

I must say, I do love that white tile look you are using!

One thing I have learned when using the Metro style (I am working on a similar style skin)- the Win8 apps assume you are sitting at a desk only a foot or two from the monitor, hence the touch-centric design. Because of that they are able to use very small text in their interfaces (like the music interface up top). I have found that you really need to dramatically increase those font sizes and tile sizes in order for people to be able to actually be able to read them when sitting 6 feet away on a couch.

(2012-08-08 20:31)ZexisStryfe Wrote:  One thing I have learned when using the Metro style (I am working on a similar style skin)- the Win8 apps assume you are sitting at a desk only a foot or two from the monitor, hence the touch-centric design. Because of that they are able to use very small text in their interfaces (like the music interface up top). I have found that you really need to dramatically increase those font sizes and tile sizes in order for people to be able to actually be able to read them when sitting 6 feet away on a couch.

All these metro (still calling it that) inspired skins has inspired me to try again creating a skin and yeah, I came across the same thing regarding how awkward sitting 6 feet away can be for text size so now trying a mockup for a touch friendly skin that is metro-ish.

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Might want to take a look here http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewto...f=15&t=170 and http://www.xbmc4xbox.org.uk/forum/viewto...?f=15&t=50

dgm1960
looks good... i hope you are making it so the user can control the order/location of the tiles?

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