Microsoft offers a couple of UI design guides

MOBILE PHONE UNDERDOG Microsoft has issued a pair of UI design guides for the beta of Windows Phone 7 developer tools.

The Vole hopes that with the Windows Phone 7 developer tools in beta testing and Windows Phone 7 developers will start building Windows Phone 7 apps. It thinks they need developer documentation to do that. Well, no doubt those developers who take time out to browse though manuals will think these two are best sellers.

Microsoft said that it has refreshed its developer documentation to help developers build the apps and that it has two new design-focused documents to help "make them look beautiful".

The first one has the catchy title "UI Design and Interaction Guide for Windows Phone 7 v2.0". Apparently it has been updated from the ground up for the beta.

This guide provides detailed information about UI elements and controls, UI system behaviours, and the interaction model for the touch interface based on the design system that's internally named Metro.

The Vole's second exciting UI design document is called "Design Templates for Windows Phone 7". µ