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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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That said: I understand the idea of making this darker so it has the idea of being the "background" of the app, but going from the stark white to the absolute black is going to be very hard on the eyes for any user... let alone at night. Taking some direction from the Zune software, you can see that the "Quickplay" page, while darker than the others, is not a solid black; it's just a mildly dark gray. This doesn't seem like a huge difference, but it really can be.
(Additionally, this applies to the other parts of the concept you have; the lighter pages of the Zune software are not solid white... at least, the majority of the backgrounds available aren't. The "Zero" background is white, but I think it's safe to say most users use one of the other backgrounds, all of which are a light, faded, desaturated image.)
Those criticisms aside, I can't wait for someone to come along and code this theme concept up for all of us.
Even working on it, the stark black does seem like a bad choice, and looking at how the Zune software does settings, I may just keep the background the same bright color, but the navigation setup will be as it is here. I'm probably going to add a background to the general UI, trying to figure out if it'll just be some gray tones, or maybe a soft image, but I'm going to package this all up into kind of a presentation as a final upload.
Thanks again for the input.