31 Weeks of Windows Phone Metro Design | #5 Choosing between Panoramas, Pivots and/or Pages

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In this post we'll try to answer a very common question that developers and designers ask us all the time and that in fact we in the Studio try to define always when exploring new features in Windows Phone: Should we use a Panorama? Or a Pivot? Or a Page?

First I will start by saying that it is not Panorama OR Pivot OR Page. It is more like Panorama(s) and/or Pivot(s) and/or Page(s).

When I first started working on Windows Phone I had a wrong perception.  I've found this wrong perception also in many other developers and designers throughout these months. The perception many times is that you have to choose one out of these three screen types for your application. False. Windows Phone apps are made out of a collection of screens of different types that are interconnected. So Windows Phone apps are made out of a number of Panoramas, Pivots and Pages. It's not OR, it's AND/OR.  In Expression Blend and Visual Studio you can create a new Windows Phone project with a Panorama or a Pivot but it's just the starting point - from there you can add a number of Panoramas, Pivots or Pages.

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