MVP Andrea Boschin has just published the 11th article from his SilverlightShow series 'Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML'. This article is focused on animations and transitions, check it out here:
From the author:
WPF and Silverlight introduced a wide toolset for animations, unfortunately it was still too much complex to be handled in a right way. Animations are something that need to be carefully planned, designed and driven, so, also is much more advanced and easy than the past, people simply omitted to use them widely.
With Windows 8 and Store Applications, the animations not only became one of the pillars of a beautiful application, making it much more appealing for the market, but it is now also a fact of usability that communicate fluidness and effectiveness to the user while he is using the interface. For this being easy for developers, the framework introduced a set of animations and transitions that are predefined and ready for a whole set of common interface patterns. Continue reading this article