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Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?
The Wired Magazine iPad app, in my opinion, is a pretty big UI and IxD win. It’s easily the best-designed magazine to come out of the App Store since the iPad’s launch, and it is, for the most part, a joy to use. But it’s built by packaging up two PNGs for each page (one landscape, one portrait), and frankly, that’s just an idiotic and incredibly inelegant way of doing it.
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Mark Boulton: Back To Reading Feeds
Mark’s experience of NetNewsWire for iPad getting him back into habit of easing RSS/Atom feeds perfectly parallels mine. I hadn’t read feeds ia year or so, and now I’m back to doing it every day, from the comfort of my couch.
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Fraser Speirs: Back In
I think Fraser nails it, here.
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On Flash
In the days since the iPad’s announcement, there’s been an ongoing discussion going on in web circles about what its lack of support for Flash means for that technology, for Adobe, for video on the web, and frankly, for the web as a whole. I’m not really sure why this debate didn’t rear it’s head when the iPhone was introduced, or when Android was introduced, or when Palm’s WebOS was introduced (since all three didn’t include Flash support), but whatever. The iPad is here and we’re talking about it now, so here are some off-the-cuff, not very well-thought-out thoughts on the matter.
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iPad thoughts
I’m not going to front: when I saw the iPad introduction today, I was initially disappointed. I was really hoping for revolutionary way to interact with a device — a whole new multi-touch interface. I was expecting this, and the fact that the iPad is, really, just a big iPod touch was a bit, well, underwhelming. Then I remembered something: the way we interact with the iPhone and iPod touch is fucking awesome. Like, best-UI-ever-created awesome. Why fuck with it?
It’s totally cliche and douchey to say so, but the fact is, the iPad is just a big iPod touch. Seriously. That’s all it is.
But is that so bad?
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.