Microsoft lead designers discuss developing for the Surface Duo

Microsoft'south Surface Duo has a unique form factor that creates new ways for people to interact with apps. In a weblog mail service, Jon Friedman, head of Microsoft designs, shares how designing for the Surface Duo created an opportunity to create for a new category of device.

"For a designer, such an opportunity is rare and exciting. Information technology'southward like discovering a new room in the business firm y'all've lived in for decades" says Friedman in the post. The dual-screen nature of the Surface Duo led Microsoft figuring out how to best take advantage of the larger and more versatile space.

The bulk of the post is a question and answer session between Friedman and Deepak Menon. Menon leads the design team for the Office app.

Menon explains in 1 response that to him, the Surface Duo "Isn't just the "smartphone experience" with 2 screens. It's not just a "folded tablet." Information technology's something new, with experiences that are made possible because of the seam, not in spite of it."

Menon also goes over how the increased screen real estate of the Surface Duo allows people to be more productive and more artistic. He too covers how Microsoft views the seam between the Duo'southward screens "as an opportunity, not a constraint" because it reduces people'southward cognitive burden.

You can read through all of Friedman and Deepak's interview to gain greater insight into the development of the Surface Duo.

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