{"id":4079,"date":"2012-01-01T20:34:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T01:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=4079"},"modified":"2012-01-01T20:34:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-02T01:34:07","slug":"metro-design-principles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/01\/metro-design-principles\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Design Principles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ux.artu.tv\/?p=179\">Jeff Fong<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/dnanian\/status\/153616443039166464\">Dave Nanian<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/ux.artu.tv\/?p=179\"><p>A particular design style like iPhone&rsquo;s would recreate a metaphor from the physical world (like a bookshelf) to solve this scenario. The bookshelf is gorgeous, well aligned, book covers fit nicely and it even uses wooden texture to make it feel more &ldquo;real&rdquo;. This design style Iconographic. It uses metaphors from the physical world in a digital world. In Metro we are Infographic. The Authentically Digital Principle would question the need of a &ldquo;wooden bookshelf&rdquo; to hold &ldquo;images of book covers&rdquo;. After all, wood is not wood in the digital world - it&rsquo;s pattern made out of pixels - it&rsquo;s &ldquo;fake&rdquo;. If you take out the &ldquo;bookshelf&rdquo; the &ldquo;books&rdquo; will not fall down because there&rsquo;s not force of gravity. So no need for a wooden bookshelf. Instead remove the chrome, the unnecessary, respecting the fact we are talking about pixels.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Fong (via Dave Nanian): A particular design style like iPhone&rsquo;s would recreate a metaphor from the physical world (like a bookshelf) to solve this scenario. The bookshelf is gorgeous, well aligned, book covers fit nicely and it even uses wooden texture to make it feel more &ldquo;real&rdquo;. This design style Iconographic. It uses metaphors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4079"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4080,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4079\/revisions\/4080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}