In the next of their articles on Windows 8, Microsoft details designing the Windows Store.
This is how the article starts:
When we set out to design the Windows Store, we had a number of design goals and principles that guided us to our final experience. The fundamental building block of our Store design was to ensure that people could easily discover and quickly acquire apps. While this is a somewhat obvious goal for a catalog or marketplace, it’s actually pretty challenging when the size and diversity of the catalog grows as quickly as we expect to happen in the Windows Store.
In this post, I’ll introduce you to all of the major parts of the Store anatomy: the landing page, editorial topic pages, data-generated lists, app listing pages, and the search, browse, install, and update experiences. I’ll discuss the relationship between those UI surfaces and how we applied the Windows Metro style design language to achieve our goals for efficient app discovery.
So to continue your Windows 8 learning, click here to read the rest of the article.
