SSWUGtv – SQL Server 2012
With Stephen Wynkoop
In todays edition Steve interviews Gareth Swanepoel. Gareth talks about SQL Server 2012, extended events wizard and interface – how to performance tune, and more.
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The Good Side of Metro Design
Now that I have spent some time with the things I don’t like about the Metro Style Design Principles, I’d like to take a look at some of the things I think have been too long forgotten or neglected.
The first of the five Design Principles states:
Show pride in craftsmanship
Devote time and energy to small things that are seen often by many of your users, and engineer the experience to be complete and polished at every stage.
- Sweat the details.
- Make using apps safe and reliable.
- Use balance, symmetry, and hierarchy to foster trust and a sense of integrity.
- Align your app layout to the grid, the classic Metro style layout for apps.
I can read a lot into this bullet. For me, stability, reliability, and recoverability of your app is a big plus. How many times have you had an application freeze, or even your whole computer, and you lose the work in process? When you are writing applications without the assumption of continual state, your application becomes much more robust and can withstand the rigors of a distributed computing world as easily as a local resource.
Security becomes a key component to making your app safe as well. It’s nice to see “safe” as a keyword to the core values of writing software.
Other items are really nothing new. Use of alignment has been around for decades. Web applications have often left this concept behind due to the complication of the different tools. As standardization continues in the form of powerful open specifications or tools such as JQuery or JavaScript leveling the field this valuable design principle becomes a real possibility.
I don’t think there is really anything earthshattering here…but it is nice to have both principles and a development environment embracing and enabling these kinds of design practices.
Do you think you will buy into the Metro Design System? Drop me an email at btaylor@sswug.org with your comments.
Cheers,
Ben
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