Tablet production and design inspires multiple layers of storytelling in one piece of reporting, and challenges editors and designers to recalibrate assumptions about user behavior. Learn to speak tablet design and how to capitalize on this rich format, with tips on low-budget tools and thinking out of the box.
StoriesFrom app
StoriesFrom: built iPad app in HTML 5 with iPad as the target, then optimized for web version #tabtouch #ona12
— valentina powers (@valentinapowers) September 22, 2012
When do you use your tablet?
Most people use tablets from 8-11 pm. How should that affect how/what content we present them? #ONA12 #tabtouch
— Grace Rubenstein (@GraceRubie) September 22, 2012
ABC demos new its iPad app main features
Because most use tablets at night, #abcnews unveiled 3 live vid screens, with storify integration #tabtouch #ONA12
— rickhirsch (@rickhirsch) September 22, 2012
Best advice to get good tablet designers? Get good print designers. @josephjames mind blown. #tabtouch #ONA12
— Jeff Stern (@jeff_stern) September 22, 2012
When designing for the tablet, we wanted the content to be the star. Text is sexy. @josephjames #tabtouch
— Steven Davy (@sdavy) September 22, 2012
If you give a tablet to a toddler, they’ll figure it out faster than you can. @josephjames #tabtouch
— Steven Davy (@sdavy) September 22, 2012
Totally agree- Use toddlers to test your iPad app #tabtouch #ona12
— valentina powers (@valentinapowers) September 22, 2012
.@josephjames: subscription model with tiers coming to next Washington Post iPad app (print subscribers get it included). #ona12 #tabtouch
— Robert Quigley (@robquig) September 22, 2012
Watchup lets user cue a string of videos from different orgs for a “sit-back” experience. #ONA12 #TabTouch
— Lexi Pandell (@lpandell) September 22, 2012
CEO Adriano Farano demoing Watchup iPad app. It’s a video aggregator you can customize into a newscast. Cool idea. #ona12 #tabtouch
— Eric Stromgren (@estromgren) September 22, 2012
Users really dig map features. Might help them learn geography, too? #tabtouch #ona12
— Anna Tauzin (@annatauzin) September 22, 2012
LinkTV’s World News app uses a live map on the ipad to show off locations of stories. @hannahe says users love it. #ona12 #tabtouch
— Robert Quigley (@robquig) September 22, 2012
Interactive map leads users to international news stories in Linked TV’s new tablet app. Many stories are auto-generated. #ONA12 #TabTouch
— Lexi Pandell (@lpandell) September 22, 2012
Wapo app on tablet… Will render all print pages everyday. “We’re finally making print social” @josephjames#tabtouch #ona12
— Silas Lyons (@silaslyons_RS) September 22, 2012
Um, this new WaPo iPad app that @josephjames is demoing at #tabtouch #ona12 is so pretty. Congrats all involved.
— Juana Summers (@jmsummers) September 22, 2012
I love how the Washington Post integrates print editions into iPad through design. People are familiar with the experience. #ona12 #tabtouch
— Robert Quigley (@robquig) September 22, 2012
No more scrolling in the new WaPo app. All swipes, buttons are more subtle, allows the articles to be the main focus. #tabtouch #ona12
— Anna Tauzin (@annatauzin) September 22, 2012
.@josephjames says Washington Post print designers help every day on iPad apps. That’s smart. #ona12 #tabtouch
— Robert Quigley (@robquig) September 22, 2012
WaPo’s 1st version of iPad app feels very much like pulling out sections of a newspaper, says @josephjames #tabtouch #ona12
— Anna Tauzin (@annatauzin) September 22, 2012
Year of the video. @hannahe emphasizes its importance on tablet #TabTouch #ona12
— Anne Godlasky (@annieisi) September 22, 2012
Discussing “lasagna design” at #ONA12 #tabtouch. With the tablet experience, it’s all about what you hide.
— Amara Aguilar (@amara_media) September 22, 2012
@josephjames to unveil the WaPo iPad app v.2 soon at the #tabtouch #ona12instagr.am/p/P4sdJ-q9lp/
— Adriano Farano (@farano) September 22, 2012
Art goes in your eye, food goes through your mouth, but touch and feeling go though your hands, says @josephjames on the #TabTouch. #ONA12
— Lexi Pandell (@lpandell) September 22, 2012
.@josephjames says Washington Post is trying to push boundaries of translation of design for print #tabtouch #ona12
— Evonne Benedict (@evonnebenedict) September 22, 2012
Skipped social media best practices panel for a tablet design panel at #ONA12. Something new! #Tabtouch
— Robert Quigley (@robquig) September 22, 2012
News is the 2nd most popular daily activity on tablets, after email.
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