There was not much talk about type leading or grids at WWDC 2010 though the role of design was invoked many times. Neither of these things should be surprising at an event focused on developers of apps for iPad and iPhone, who are largely more focused on the realization of a vision and the writing [...]
Someone tweeted this post’s headline as an alternative title during the “International Symposium for Online Journalism“, which I attended in Austin a week ago. The tweet captures it’s essence. This is a time of fear and hope from news organisations as ad revenue continues to drop and new streams don’t rise to fill the black [...]
Jeremy Leslie of Magculture has written one of the more interesting reviews of the ipad and existing apps on his blog. His thoughts touch on some of the key issues for app designers and newspaper and magazine publishers. It is good to see that we are in agreement on this, particularly when I am in [...]
Mag+ live with Popular Science+ from Bonnier on Vimeo.
Congratulations to Berg, Bonnier and Popular Science on what looks like a very exciting magazine for the iPad. Designed by Berg and published by Bonnier, This project is not just about the single issue, but a publishing platform and the whole process of art direction, production and [...]
In preparing to design for the iPad I wanted to get a bit beyond the images I’d seen of emulated page turns, or pages being flicked and scrolled (as in the NYT demo) or the all singing all dancing Wired extravaganzas. Well it won’t be long now when we can all test our imagined experience [...]
I have been interviewed by Josh Benton from Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University. He wanted me to talk about the iPad from a newspaper / iphone app designer perspective.
I found Josh’s question about the NYT demo particulary tough. It is great to see what they are doing – and exciting to see something [...]
A thought provoking post on the uses of the ipad at Monday Note. News on the iPad makes a lot of sense, but is part of a rethinking of how newspapers collect, generate and distribute stories. I think it makes sense to think of newspapers as curaters of information and also increasingly as app makers, [...]
During the last few weeks I have a had a few conversation about Apple’s expected tablet, some of which have involved the other person saying “Yes, but what is it for?” I think it is aimed at various audiences, and here are some very subjective musings on why that might be: Most evenings, after meals [...]
This is fantastic, an infographic from Gigaom which analyses the sales of apps on the iphone/ipod touch done in a format which makes for a beautiful scrolling graphic on the iphone, and points to some exciting possibilities
As iphone apps, web apps and other products bring more user goodness but also more complexity, I find myself drawn to the elegant simplicity of these Japanese Stereoviews – the 2 adjacent images of the stereoview have been turned into an animated gif, to bring jerky but oddly compelling 3d to the computer screen. Of [...]