Letterpress’s simple and elegant UI gives me a thought about Windows Phone’s Metro UI. Letterpress has a tile based Metro like UI minus the WP Segue font and totally cornered edges. It has really an amazing UI. The transitions are sweet and simple.
Isn’t this how metro apps on Windows Phone should feel like? Why there aren’t such apps on Windows Phone?
Metro UI is a cool concept but I am not really impressed by it in practice. I don’t like the idea of making all apps look alike. The metro app design trend on Windows Phone gives all apps almost same look and feel. Apps are useless unless they are able to differentiate their user experience from other apps. Tweetbot for iOS is a fine example of success based on unique User Experience.
Letterpress’ user experiences gives a thought about how cool can Metro app get. But unfortunately there are no insanely awesome apps for Windows Phone that can set a fine example. Developers usually start Windows Phone application development from the provided templates in Visual Studio. Almost all applications on Windows Phone are based on those Visual Studio templates and there is no trend of recreating the user experience from scratch to achieve something unique. Microsoft’s aim with Metro was to create a standard experience for users but I have noticed that it really gets boring and annoying when you use it for a long time. I have recently moved back to iOS after using Windows Phone for 5 months because I missed a lot of things and it really got annoying.
