Everywhere I look I see newspapers bringing out tablet apps which reflect the daily printed product. This is true in every country and every type of news organisation. the visions that many had of being able to grab hold of the news have not quite yet come to pass. Looking at the terrain, this is [...]
Just as the ipad was launched there was a flurry of app creation, and there seem to be another stream of news apps coming out this year. There have been no great breakthrough in news apps in my opinion, nothing which answers the perceived need for a daily news app. Whether that need exists is [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]