Solarizr edX App

Solarizr is a Univeral Windows Platform (UWP) teaching app created for Microsoft’s Windows 10 tutorials and edX courses. The premise: Technicians at a solar panel company need an app to manage appointments. The appointment data includes location, directions, a calendar, live weather, and customer contact information.

Solarizr is designed to allow students to build and style the entire app from scratch during the course of a semester. I designed the app, built the XAML and parts of the C# backend, and wrote the assignments for the edX course. The version of Solarizr that you see here uses the Metro Design Language 2 style guide and Template 10 navigation patterns.

There were two levels of user experience that made Solarizr an interesting and fun design challenge: the app UX, which needed to illustrate Windows 10 recommended design practices, and the developer experience of learning how to build the app.