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Behind the scenes with Editions designer David Robinson

Editions, the highly anticipated magazine App produced by AOL, Mobile has just hit the App store boasting the tag line "The Magazine that Reads You". It's the first digital magazine I know of that integrates tagging of a user's interests and maps content to those choices offering up a unique personalized magazine every day. Recently I got to sit down with David Robinson, Head of UX & Mobile Design for AOL to ask him a few questions about the process from a designers point of view.… MORE

10 Essential iPad Apps for Publication Designers

Those of us excited about the possibilities of the tablet have already seen the big-name magazine apps for iPad, like Time, Wired, Sports Illustrated, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and Entertainment Weekly's Must List. (If you haven't, take a few minutes to check them out now.) But there are many other apps of interest to publication designers that have not yet received as much publicity. Below is a sampling of ten apps, many of them free, to kick your iPad imagination into high gear. This is, of course, nowhere near a definitive list. With new releases appearing almost every day in the "News" category of the App Store, many more apps with innovative navigation schemes and vibrant animations await your download.
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5 Questions for The Wonderfactory on the Apple Tablet

Next week it is almost certain that Apple will announce the iTablet (or iPad, product name TK). This Kindle size device could be a game-changer for the magazine industry by enabling and launching new and innovative paid digital content products. Sports Illustrated has worked with The Wonderfactory (TWF) to prototype their magazine's look and feel for the new platform. Late last year, TWF posted a video of the prototype on YouTube that has been viewed over 580,000 times. I sat down with David Link, co-founder of TWF, and had five questions for him about the experience and his thoughts for what's coming next.… MORE

NYT: Magazines Get Ready For Tablets

Good piece today in the nytimes.com about Wired and Sports Illustrated taking the initiative -- both creatively and business wise -- by developing prototypes for the inevitable release of the Apple tablet. Check it out here.

Spotlight on 'The Big Picture' from Boston.com

MediaShift has done a profile of both The Big Picture and Alan Taylor, the web developer behind it, in Big Pictures Help Tell Big Stories at Boston.com.

It's worth a read and The Big Picture is definitely worth a look, especially the spectacular Year in Review: Part 1, Part 2, & Part 3.



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