Learn from windows phone

One of the biggest features of Windows Phone is that the main page is built from a square or rectangular "tile". Tiles can be more than just an icon, it can also carry some of the information you want to display to the user, so the rational use of tiles can show the information will give us a lot of design applications, in the user a lot of choices stand out.

The most basic, you can like the system comes with the SMS function, as a number of unread messages to provide the number of tips.
Slightly complicated, you can display some static or dynamic pictures in the tile, text messages. But to note that, Windows Phone design principle is simple, large color with less color display content is more in line with the overall style of the system, if the tile design is too fancy and complex to a little deviate from the original design , And placed in the main interface may not have a particularly good visual effects for better user experience.