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 that is an iPad newspaper app in progress (not a proof of concept). A project in it’s early stages is bound to have some unresolved areas, but it’s good to see the NYT looking to find ways of retaining the edited nature of the paper, and the ability to stumble upon a story. There was a glimpse in the demo of an interesting page which has more of a grid structure with short excerpts of stories, drawing on the interesting work NYTimes.com design director Khoi Vinh and software developer Andre Behrens have been doing with Times Skimmer.
It will be interesting to look back and see, once there are a first and second generation of iPad apps, how these thoughts and those of others look with hindsight.