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Hope most of you might have heard DOUGLAS MARTIN's quote:           "Questions about whether design is  necessary or affordable are quite beside the point: Design is inevitable. The alternative to good design is bad design, not no design at all." And    VICTOR PAPANEK says:          "Design is the conscious effort to impose meaningful order" So, if designing is that much important then one has to be very much stern about it. Going forward, today I am pointing out some design principles for  Windows Phone App. So, let's gear up. Clutter free UI - Information should be well organized and user should not get congestion like feel. Make best use of typography Focus should be on content and it should be in a way that it attracts the user's attention from the beginning itself Try to keep only the most pertinent content on the screen because when it comes to WP design, content matters more than a chrome Try to provide seamless UX from dedicated devi

Images play a very significant role in any Windows Phone application. So, one should be very careful while dealing with images. As of now, Windows Phone supports only two image formats named JPG/JPEG and PNG. Now before concluding on which image format to choose, let's get into bit more depth of it. PNG format images are non-lossy and need very little CPU effort to display because those are pixel perfect. But at the same time, huge PNG images take too much longer to read from storage and ultimately lead to slower display. On the other hand, JPEG format images are lossy, smaller to store  and based on the compression level much more complicated decoding algorithm is required to display them. Another point regarding image is about opacity and transparency -  All the images that use transparency should be stored as PNG format because JPEG doesn’t support transparency and JPEG format should be used for all the images that are fully opaque. Now when coming to Windows Ph