Twitter talks about the design of its universal app for Windows 10

Twitter rolled out its app for Windows 10 earlier this week, featuring design changes that tie in with Microsoft's latest OS. Twitter mentioned that its goal was to mimic the principles of Windows Phone's "personal, relevant, and connected" design, starting from the login folio:

Initially, the blueprint squad at Twitter — which includes two designers that worked on the Windows Telephone design team at Microsoft — decided to go with accent colors for the left pane to friction match that of Windows 10, but that decision was struck downwards as it was "pretty overpowering."

Instead, the app comes with a dark gray color option forth the lefthand side. Accent colors are now used to showcase current view besides as links, as seen beneath:

The microblogging service's design team also looked at ways to engineer the app to work on a wide multifariousness of screen sizes, from phones with 4-inch screens all the way to devices similar the Surface Hub:

Nosotros could scale the timeline to the unabridged width of the window, significant giant and often blurry scaled up images on big screens. Another pick we explored was using multi-column layout, similar to what we do with TweetDeck. A third arroyo explored a more web-oriented approach that places the timeline in the centre with white infinite on the sides.

Twitter also looked at setting a fixed width for the window size (like the Mac customer), but ultimately decided to go with a "stock-still timeline width in the middle, and we put special attention into making information technology flex accordingly as the window gets resized."The design team at Twitter explored several combinations in terms of the kind of content to brandish on the Alive Tile, with the last iteration designed to showcase the nearly relevant information:

While the app is functional, it lacks features power users are looking for, such as pull to refresh (you lot have to click the refresh button to load new content), ability to quote RT and location info.

Twitter is interested in feedback, and is actively engaging with the community on how information technology can meliorate its design. Got something to say about the changes you lot'd like to see? Let Twitter know past using the hashtag #twitterforwindows.

Source: Twitter