CLIENT: WINDOWS PHONE 7, MICROSOFT (NIRH)
PROJECT:
Executing design for the new Windows Mobile 7 projects for East Asia release in Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese and Korean. Setting EA original visual design direction and defining/applying UX guidelines to consumer experiences. Including designing EA original UI screens and creating the Windows Phone 7 standard for Input Method Editors (SIP) for 4 language
Executing UI design for the new Windows Mobile 7 projects for East Asia release in Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese and korean. setting East Asia original visual design direction and defining/applying UX guidelines to consumer experiences.
This includes creation of new typographic standard with mix of horizontal and vertical text orientations for double byte languages (Asian Characters). Include detailed tunings for letter spacing and line spacing that works for all 4 languages, working closely with UX and typography and Research and multiple other teams. our mission was to create this new typographic standard within the theme of "METRO", the graphic principle of the Window's Phone 7.
Also created a visual standard for Ime (Input method editor, SIP) in 4 Asian languages with cross-functional teams (UX, Design Integration, Dev, Research, Typography, Geography etc).
Lock Screen, Start Screen
Vertical text orientation for the date display on Lock Screen. Typography tuning for the start screen.
Incoming Call Screen
Vertical text orientation for the caller info.
Email Read Card
Vertical text orientation for the sender display. Typography adjustment for double byte languages.
Date Picker and Calendar
Vertical text orientation for the date picker display for Month and Date.
Vertical text orientation for the calender month display.
People Hub
Vertical text orientation for Contact names in the feed area. New algorithm creation for feed module with mixture of vertical and horizontal text orientation
People hub is the one-touch access to facebook, twitter, Linkedin. skim latest posts and pictures from contacts,
dial, text or Im your contacts. Post your status etc., east Asia phone has it's original module design with vertical text orientation. our role was to create the clean and functional new typography for east Asia market. As they have vertical text orientation in regular life style, we brought it to uI as the first generation in the smart phone history
Picture Hub
Vertical text orientation for main menu and feed module.
Music + Video Hub
Vertical text orientation for main menu.
Japanese 12 key SIP screens: Hiragana and Romaji
Japanese 12 key SIP screens: flower and flick
Japanese 12 key SIP screens: numbers and symbols, emoji screens
Japanese QWERTY SIP screens: alphabet, emoji screens
Simplified Chinese 12 key SIP screens: numbers & symbols, emoji screens
Traditional Chinese SIP screens and Korean 12 key
Japanese 12 key SIP screen landscape: Hiragana
Japanese 12 key SIP screen landscape: flower