Windows Phone 7 Multi-Tasking and Task-Switcher Mockup

I thought it might be fun trying to imagine what a proper task switcher and notification/background-service manager UI might look like in Windows Phone 7, so I created my own little mockup of what I thought it would look like. The idea is that you would press and hold the back button from anywhere, and then this UI would pop up.

Couple of main ideas in this mockup:
* The UI would allow the user to manage live tiles and toast notifications from one place. Very handy!
* It would allow the user to view, pause, and cancel any background services currently running, including (hopefully) any custom background services initiated by a third party app.
* The little bars next to each service represent the amount of CPU usage that service is taking up.
* When a user clicks on an app to switch to it, the idea is that it would be moved to the top of the back stack after it is re-launched. That way you wouldn't go back to it again if you hit the back button normally.

Just to reiterate: this is just a mockup created by me in Silverlight from my own ideas on what I'd like in a task manager UI in WP7. I am not affiliated with Microsoft nor do I have any internal knowledge of future versions of Windows Phone 7.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• wp7
• windows phone 7
• mockup
• multitasking
• task switcher

[jtotha]

i personally like it, but i think thats too hard for the average dumb consumer. you gotta iphone dumb it down. It should be like iphones and hold down the back button and the apps pop up on the bottom with the icons looking like the same small icons from the full app list

[SleepyDaddySoftware]

@jtotha You might be right, but I think in this case it's ok. It's sort of an advanced feature - most people would just use the back button and the windows button, so it's ok that the task switcher is a little more advanced. Even still, the default Pivot panel is the app list, which is just a basic list of recent apps that they can bring back up in a single touch. I'm not sure how it could be made any more simple.

[arielberhua]

i guess this is perfect, easy to used and goes with the metro style arround the OS. MS doesn't need to copy IOS task manager. This is an excelent mockup. I really hope someone on WP7 department watch this video and build it...... but maybe we should ask to XDA to do it???? I think the could bring it to reall life faster than MS hehehe