Update: GUIs, Here's How They Work

So here's an update to a recent post : Android recently released their design guidelines for Ice Cream Sandwich. It can be found here. Some interesting things to note:

The design principals are abstract and lofty. Things like "Enchant Me", "Simplify My Life", and "Make Me Amazing" are pretty open to interpretation, but at least it gives you an idea what the designers were thinking when they created the interface.

The Style section of the site describes things like how to design for different resolutions, what themes would compliment the native UI, their Roboto font, icons, and finally writing style

The writing style is most interesting to me. Here are their main guidelines.

• Keep it brief
• Keep it Simple
• Be Friendly
• Put the most important thing first
• Describe only what's necessary and no more

It's interesting because most of the examples they used seem to have came from their older UIs. Maybe they have gotten things right with ICS. If you got the time, I would encourage you to check out their other guidelines -- it's in interesting read (if you're in to that kind of thing).