Windows Phone 7 has won the People’s Choice Award at the 2011 International Design Excellence Awards® (IDEA). Windows Phone won in the Interactive Product Experiences category of the Design Segments. Windows Phone is also one of the winners in the IDSA Best In Show 2011 winners.

In one of the episodes of Silverlight TV at Channel 9, Dave Crawford and Tom Eddings visit from the UK to contribute top design tips. Dave and Tom have tremendous amounts of experience helping to create great UX for Windows Phone 7 applications in the marketplace.

Okay, so here is a volunteer job if you know your design tools. This is neither a contest nor a paid gig. If you’d like to help me with the site’s random things, I can offer you big props and beer’s on me when we meet!

Avlade has published a useful eBook – Designing for Windows Phone 7 – which includes great content weather you are learning Windows Phone 7 development or training/speaking on the same. Avlade is a content creation and sales enablement partner for technology companies.

The Application Bar, the quick and easy toolbar for your application, is displayed as a row of between one and four icon buttons along the bottom of the phone’s screen. The icon buttons are used to provide users with quick access to an application’s most common tasks.

UIstencils has released Windows Phone 7 stencil kit and sketch pad. Both the products work precisely with each other and have been co-developed with the Windows Phone internal design team at Microsoft.

MIX is a gathering of developers, designers, UX experts and business professionals creating the most innovative and profitable consumer sites on the web. This posts lists all the session on Windows Phone at the event..

Windows Phone 7 Design Templates is an open-source project for sharing XAML based resources for creating consistent Windows Phone 7 user experiences using Expression Blend.