In Flux | Trent Walton
Trent offers some excellent advice for dealing with the effects of the iPad’s retina display on your websites. That advice is: don’t panic.
Tags: ipad
From Print to iPad: Designing a Reading Experience
Harry’s 15 minute case-study presentation at UX London was excellent. He says the lesson is that we shouldn’t be afraid to make mistakes, but there’s another lesson here too: testing with users will save your ass.
Newsstand Is Promising, Yay! But Enough with Issue-Based Publishing (Global Moxie)
Josh nails it: publishers need to stop thinking in terms of issues:
Publishers and designers have to start thinking about content at a more atomic level, not in aggregated issues. That’s how we already understand news as consumers, and we have to start thinking that way as publishers, too. This is why Flipboard, Instapaper, and other aggregators are so interesting: they give you one container for the whole universe of content, unbound to any one publisher.
OLO
This is a thoroughly enjoyable, frustratingly addictive two-player game for the iPad.
Oh, and it just happens to be made with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: TripAdvisor.com Reviews for the Overlook Hotel.
I look forward to seeing Eyes Wide Shut as a series of Foursquare check-ins.
Push Pop Press: Al Gore’s Our Choice
This looks like a beautiful way to present information, although it seems a real shame that the information is locked to just one class of device.
iPad: The Microwave Oven of Computing | Techinch
Y’know, I think this comparison actually makes a lot of sense.
A Starry Night on Vimeo
A very cute Christmas message from Torchbox.
iOS Fonts
A handy list of installed fonts on the iPhone and iPad.
Let's start a new life with iDish. - しーなねこの記録
By far the best use of an iPad I've seen.
Non Hover | Trent Walton
A timely reminder: don't hide information behind mouseover events.
What Apple needs to do now « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
Adam Greenfield is spot-on here, dismantling Apple's "imitate real world objects" design guideline for iPhone and iPad apps.
Four Hundred & Twenty-Nine Pounds — Paul Robert Lloyd
Paul doesn't need an iPad. Neither do I. Neither do you. Paul is spending his money elsewhere.
MiniApps - HTML5 apps for iPhone, iPad, Android & other mobile platforms
A nice collection of free apps for your mobile device. No app store required, thanks to offline storage.
The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash - Charlie's Diary
Charles Stross peers into his dilithium crystal ball and tells tales of the future as decided by Apple.
QuirksBlog: A pixel is not a pixel is not a pixel
A clear explanation of device-width from PPK.
Books in the Age of the iPad
A detailed look at traditional and digital publishing, considered from the content out.