Foursquare designer talks challenges of redesign process

If you lot're an aspiring Windows Telephone programmer, a new blog mail by a designer of the Foursquare app may be of some interest to you. A petty over a week afterward debuting a fresh new look on Windows Phone, Foursquare designer Basak Haznedaroglu took to a blog mail service to describe some of the design challenges behind the visual revamp.

Haznedaroglu says that the team's mission was to have a difficult wait at Windows Phone and what makes it unique:

Our goal equally a team was elementary —to craft an experience that is tied to the new Foursquare vision and embraces the Windows design language. While simultaneously non deviating too far from the Foursquare designs and branding present on iOS and Android.

Speaking on the importance of Windows design itself, Haznedaroglu says:

Windows design emphasizes heavily on compelling experiences with meaningful transitions and animations that makes your app feel fluid and alive. Considering the sequence of the operations your user will be taking is a primal part of laying out the motion design. Afterward seeing successful examples in the market, nosotros knew that not taking advantage of motility design to convey our app'south narrative would be a missed opportunity.

To address the above challenges, Haznedaroglu says that the design team worked difficult on a number of fronts to bring the app to life. 1 of the virtually important aspects of the redesign was to improve the onboarding experience for new users. To this end, the team worked to implement a fast and fluid interface past adding engaging animations and transitions during onboarding in order to emphasize personalization while keeping the experience fun. Additionally, Windows Phone'south use of pivot command (menu navigation via left and right swipes) fabricated the team recollect harder well-nigh the the app's prioritization of valuable information in each menu.

This is a fascinating look at the thought process that goes into bringing an app to life, and Haznedaroglu goes into much more than detail concerning the exact steps that the Foursquare design squad took in the full post. Be sure to click on over via the source link below if y'all're interested in learning more than, and allow us know in the comments how you're enjoying the redesigned Foursquare.