Friday, July 18, 2014

Where's my app?

Microsoft has been busy updating their Windows Store in order to make it easier for users to find apps. In doing so they have removed many apps from the Windows Store because of new policies they put in place.

Many of our apps have been removed because they are about games but are not games. So we have to re-categorize our apps under something else besides "Games". Also Microsoft wants app names about games to have the game name come last. So all of our apps are "[Game Name] Info Hub". Microsoft wants us to rename these to "Info Hub for [Game Name]". Finally they want apps to have their own unique branding so users are not confused. We have some apps that show the logo of the game the app is about that we are changing.

We have took this opportunity to revamp our apps. To give them a cleaner look and rebrand them all under the "Info Hub" icon.

Here's an example of our new logo for our Info Hub for WildStar:

We tried many variations of logos and surveyed people what they liked most and this is the result!
Here is a sample of the revamped UI:


So hang tight while we work to get the rest of the apps out!

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