iPad Mags Need A New Blueprint. Ever since the iPad came out, print media companies have been feeling their way in this new medium, but so far they’ve just been stumbling over themselves. They are latching onto the iPad as a new walled garden where people will somehow magically pay for articles they can get for free in their browsers. But if they want people to pay, the experience has to be better than on the Web, and usually it’s not.
This sorry state of affairs is true for both magazines and newspapers. The New York Times iPad app, for instance, is gorgeous but crippled. Despite the poor reviews and uninspiring number of downloads, media companies sold millions of dollars worth of advertising last year for their iPad apps because advertisers want to be associated with anything shiny and new. However, I am not holding my breath. At the very least, Apple should fix the subscription problem in iTunes. But making these media apps social and realtime is the key. The Tablet Revolution. Eighteen months after the introduction of the iPad, 11% of U.S. adults now own a tablet computer of some kind. About half (53%) get news on their tablet every day, and they read long articles as well as get headlines.
But a majority says they would not be willing to pay for news content on these devices, according to the most detailed study to date of tablet users and how they interact with this new technology. The study, conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism in collaboration with The Economist Group, finds that the vast majority of tablet owners-fully 77%-use their tablet every day. They spend an average of about 90 minutes on them. The survey also finds that three-in-ten tablet news users (defined for this study as the 77% of all tablet users who get news at least weekly) say they now spend more time getting news than they did before they had their tablet.
Just 4% say they spend less time while two-thirds (65%) spend about the same amount of time. Design for iPad. Emulator iPad Peek Test your web pages in the iPad browser emulator. Click on the top iPad border to rotate. LiveView for iPhone & iPad LiveView is a specialized remote screen viewing application intended as a tool to help designers create graphics for mobile applications Getting Started Web Development For The iPhone And iPad The iPhone operating system makes up 50% of the worldwide smartphone market, with the next-highest OS being Android at 24%. The iPad Web Design & Development Toolbox The main focus of this article relates to designing websites for the iPad.
Useful Design Tips For Your iPad App Think about the device in terms of lifestyle rather than features and technology. GUI & Templates iPad GUI PSD The PSD was constructed using vectors, so it’s fully editable and scalable. iPad Stencil for Omnigraffle OmniGraffle template for folks designing iPad apps Collection Vol. 1 Here's a list of free iPhone & iPad templates and stencils. Collection Vol. 2 Library of UI elements at your disposal. Icons. Opinion: Why The Daily Is So Yesterday. Imagine my surprise when I received personal email from someone at Rupert Murdoch’s just-announced iPad app and national news publication, The Daily, encouraging me to post “info, images, video, and more” from their news release.
Those who aren’t interested in the inside baseball of new publishing ventures probably missed or ignored the announcement—after all, we’re talking about just another iPad news app, which isn’t exactly news beyond the publishing industry. So why am I telling you about it? A few reasons. The most overarching reason is that the iPad has been hailed by some as the savior of the publishing industry. That hasn’t happened so far, with high-profile magazine apps from the likes of Wired seeing initial interest (100,000 app sales of the first edition) followed by rapidly declining sales (down to 20,000 after a few months). And Wired has been the most successful. Also, in this celebrity-focused age, any move by a billionaire must be interesting, no? Designing Graceful, Gracious Interfaces for iPad. iPAD SURVEY RESULTS: Everything You Need To Know About How People Use The iPad. Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book.