Revert the pivot menu UI for WP
The WP update v4.4 (27/10/14) has brought with it a new UI and menu system that is totally at odds with the Metro design language. The Android-style menu goes completely against the grain of the simple, elegant and clean pivot menu that it replaced. Please revert it back.
The addition of the big blue bar across the top is distracting. The mini icons, hamburger and oddly placed search have together created a less fluid design, that lacks cohesion. Please bring back the proper pivot menu.
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@eljoneljon
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Nguyet !!! Try to use this so called hamburger menu when it is positioned on the far top corner on the left side, when U hold your 1520 !!! Good luck
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Nguyệt Lang-Hội commented
Nay, the modern U.I, should evolve to become more iconographic...
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I like the new interface that was there, Windows Phone has become oversimplified, I've bought Windows devices on phones since Windows Mobile and one of the unique points is that every individual option, setting, and feature has its own beautifully designed artistic icon/logo that makes it instantly recognizable, Windows Phone simply doesn't have this ''magic'', instead of having beautiful unique logo's within in the tiles there are mere words, so oversimplified that they seem condenscending to us, the users, the logo's that the OneDrive re-design introduced and the useful Hamburger-menu (which honestly could've remained under the ''...'' 's ''Settings'' option, but Hamburger-menu's are a near universal sign, now), the logo's the new update provided seemed beautiful and useful, it kept using Microsoft's unique identity (as the people/shared logo originated in the M.S.N. Messenger), and combined the modern design language with iconography, I'll be honest, I want Microsoft to start imitating Google Android MORE, though mostly Apple and Google have been copying the over-simplified design of Windows Phone the past 2 years, one might also say that the quickly developed Windows Phone when it first came out was a Microsoft inside-joke porodying the iPhone's lack of features, openness, and usefulness (compared to Windows Mobile the iPhone was useless in almost every way, there was a Mac Vs. P.C. style joke called iPhone Vs. Smartphone (Samsung) where the Windows Phone laughed at the lack of features and connectivity of the most basic things in the iPhone), rather than trying to come back to Windows Mobile Microsoft has tried to copy the iPhone IN ALMOST EVERY WAY, but parodying it to make it over-simplified, though that was the focus of the Windows Phone 7 Series, I hope that Microsoft will finally be feature-centric again (as with Windows P.C.'s), something that the old design language hinted at, the present focus is convergence of P.C.'s and Phones, and as Joe Belfiore said is that ''people don't want P.C.'s on his phone'' 4 years ago, I really hope that he has gone 180 on that statement because that is exactly what people want on their phones, and Windows Phone is failing because of its lack of beauty, and how simple-centric it is rather than feature-centric, icons are smaller and hint at getting more features placed there, but having ''horizontal scrolling menu's'' means that every extra feature will be harder to impliment and//or will cause more ''horizontal scrolling'' (and as we've learned from the Photo's Hub the further something is from the first ''scroll'' the less clicks it'll get), please stop over-simplifying Windows Phone, I'll admit that the only reason I keep buying Windows Phones is because I'm a Microsoft-fanboy and I ''like the fancy Windows Logo on it'', but please start making Windows Phone more functional, when my P.C. and Phone will have the same O.S. I hope to see both's features coming together, not more software segregation, and the same oversimplified U.I. making it everywhere, Windows Phone should be more iconographic.
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Felix
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At least put the search buton at the bottom like it is across all the apps.
The search buton at the top breaks the Modern design guidelines:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/africaapps/archive/2014/03/08/ux-guidelines-for-windows-phone-8.aspx -
Ivan Horvat commented
Sadly, I think we should get used to hamburger menus since it is all over Windows 10. Some apps have two hamburger menus (app title and app left side).
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Anonymous
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Exactly! No hamburgers please!
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Anonymous
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I am sorry to say but the new design has not improved the experience as it should have. The hamburger menus is still there which is annoying. I should not have to explain this to a design team. But here is the thing. Android does not have any menu other than the hamburger menu where all options are stacked. Windows phone has the 3 dots already. Adding the hamburger menu makes it confusing and more importantly look like an android knock off. We windows phone users are disappointed. please fix.
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Anonymous
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The most annoying is that you have just closed this topic as "BOOM! IT'S DONE" (so you think it is finished and you do not have to care about it more), but it is far away from done.
I think what we want is an hour to implement for a single Windows Phone developer, not weeks or months for a whole team... Please take a look at MSDN on Modern UI guidelines, or use COMMON SENSE, or create an empty project in Visual Studio to have an example, or just take a look at your own Windows (/Android?) Phone. Thank you.
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Yannick
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That "BOOM! IT'S DONE" status can be reverted, the UI from 4.5 sure is an improvement over that from 4.4, but there is still some work. The UI from 4.3 and earlier was much better then this.
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Geoff Coupe
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This update still does not appear to be following your own UI guidelines for WP apps. I'm not convinced that this is an "improvement".
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Barry Johnson
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What is remarkable, and I don't mean this as a criticism of you at all, is that your designs are remarkably similar to the old OneDrive app - this really shouldn't be so terribly difficult to implement. I do like the additions you've made to the top banner in terms of status information.
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Barry Johnson
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This is admittedly an improvement from the most recent version, so thank you for that. However, I still don't understand the OneDrive team's apparent contempt for the Windows Phone UI guidelines. I don't have as passionate an aversion to the hamburger menu as some, but the general point is a valid one: the remaining functions that are there would be better placed in the ellipsis menu.
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@eljoneljon
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I do not consider this as an update. Terrible android design is still there. You did nothing to fix it . And who on earth treated this tragic placement of search button on the far far top of screen and what was the logic behind hamburger menu??? Is anyone knowing basics of metro design over there??? I I'm uninstalling this joke app and refuse to use OneDrive services until it will be not windows app again.
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Noël Villagrana commented
1 kill hamburger menu
2 bring search back down to pivot
3 place settings back in pivot bar inside ellipses "..."Does everyone else agree?
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Julien
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It would be unfair not to recognize the progress, but I don't get why it is so important for Microsoft to have a hamburger button in this application. Please don't try to mimic Android, it is really not a usability reference.
Also, I don't really like the colors of the app. I have chosen a dark background with a cyan accent color. I wished this setting wasn't completely ignored by this app. If you don't want the background to be plain black, keep it at least dark instead of hurting my eyes each time I open the application :)
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Adam Lein
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Thank goodness the text pivots are back! The mystery meat buttons were horrible. It's okay to give Android users an awful user interface since that whole OS is badly designed, but please design Windows Phone apps correctly. Now get rid of the hamburger button!
Here's some more tips on how to tell if your mobile app sucks: http://pocketnow.com/2014/08/27/8-ways-to-tell-if-your-mobile-app-sucks
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Peter commented
LOVE <3 the update, the UI is now amazing! Metro but with a fresh twist. Great job!
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amnesia
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You guys just don't get it, do you? Hamburger button HAS TO GO. Kill it with fire. It belongs to Android. Jesus fck*ng christ, how do you people keep your jobs? Looks like you have to love android and hate metro.
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OD_ideas
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This is a step in the right direction, with the re-introduction of clear, usable pivot menus. It does, on some level, attempt to evolve the Metro UI. However, it still leaves a gaping issue with regard to the Hamburger competing with the metro 3-dot menu bar, they just doesn't look right together. The search button is out of place even more so now, it's less accessible when using one hand navigation.
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Leo
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How is this Done? the app still has the ridiclulous Hamburger menu and search on top. good luck reaching for them from your 1520. Please remember this is WINDOWS PHONE not android.
