XBOX DESIGN TEAM
ROLE: VISUAL DESIGNER | UI/UX | PRODUCTION
BRIEF
While at Microsoft I worked with the Xbox team. I was the main designer on the team that worked on the Live Tiles for the Xbox app. For this project, our main user was the gamer. Copious amounts of gamer data are common in gaming. The greatest challenge was narrowing down what data was important to our gamers, and to display that data in the tiles. The step that followed was to design and adapt the tiles to scale, after which came brainstorming and executing different animation styles to the design.
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Live Tiles are unique to Windows Phone. They show a great deal of information over designated spaces, shaped as tiles, on the phone’s screen.
THE LIVE TILE
The live tile is customizable by the user. The user can change everything from size to color and transparency. Each size should give the same amount of information. The problem that had to be solved was giving the same information as real estate got taken away with the smaller tile sizes.