[HTC One X] :
Finally done!

Warning, wall of text incoming:

When I started planning my theme I had 3 things in mind

a) easiness

b) usability

c) looks

d) cleanliness -> as little clutter as possible

So what made me do my theme this way was basically the idea of making my phone as easy and simple to use as possible. Windows Phone and to an extent iPhone users tend to nag that their device is simpler to use than Android and to an extent I agree. The thing is, even with an iPhone when taking your phone from your pocket it takes a minimum of 4-5 presses/swipes or other motions just to open the phone, which is, arguably, still the most important and most used function in a smartphone. So my first aim was to conquer this thing and make the most important functions readily available - and as an example my lockscreen allowed me to add a few targets, one being the phone, so that I can open it immediately after pressing the unlock button.

The second thing was to make everything as accessible as possible. So I created 5 pages in my launcher, each with a certain theme of what types of apps to use (such as "web" or "media") and color theme. I believe in using one app for a specific purpose instead of several apps that let me do parts of something which leads to the fact that I don't have many apps in a certain category. For instance for media I use the gallery, music, youtube and videoplayer - in that order.

After that I started thinking that 5 homescreens is still quite a lot and might lead to a lot of unnecessary swiping. So I created text and buttons that indicate which screen I'm in currently and what theme it is. I added links to the other screens so that I can get from any page to another with a maximum of one press or one swipe. I also added a clock, battery and button to the app drawer on each homescreen as those are the most important functions and informations and you shouldn't need to search for them.

The next target was looks and while I've used pretty wallpapers before, I decided to go with fairly minimalistic background wallpapers this time and instead add a picture frame on each homescreen and this time I went with the all-time-classic: hot babes! The picture frame let me add nice pictures without them filling in all of the screen and without them covering buttons or cluttering too much.

My main theme for my icons was inspired by WP 7/8 and rawdealer's "Berlin at night" at page 323. I chose grey/transparent to make everything look as consistent as possible. I've used minimalistic themes before but the problem with those is that while they are very aesthetically pleasing, they often lack important information or require "hiding" information and functions for the sake of minimalism.

The apps and programs used to create this theme: Photoshop CS6, Dropbox (faster file moving than connecting phone+opening mass storage mode+moving files+closing mass storage mode), Nova Launcher Prime, MultiPicture Live Wallpaper, Minimalistic Text Widget, some android ICS+JB stock icons and some custom icons. As a base rom I was using ViperX when I started and now went back to IceCreamJelly which I just can't seem to stay away from.

Anyway sorry for the long post, I hope that my insight as to why and what to think of when theming could give someone else ideas. And now to the screenshots:

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