Watch the cat play an electronic piano and play with a squiggly worm-like object on the iPad.
You certainly wouldn’t see a cat be able to make the connection between moving a computer mouse and a related action on screen, but when screen and touch are integrated, it’s a world of digital intuitive enough for animals.
Translating a web site experience into an iPhone app requires a complete rethinking of the architecture and redesigning of user interfaces so they work within a tiny screen and mobile context. Introduce the iPad device into the mix with its larger size and yet to be defined usage patterns and you suddenly realize that you don’t need to translate what you’ve done on the iPhone app — you need to start the process all over again.
Here’s a demo of WIRED magazine running as an Air App on the iPad. You can read more about it on Adobe’s blog here.
The concept enables — in digital form — the immersive content experience magazines are known for, and allows new interactive features to stimulate reader engagement, including:
content designed specifically for the touch screen experience
easy navigation methods, including an innovative zoomed-out “Browse Mode”
the ability to browse image slideshows
embedded 360 degree object viewers
support for video and audio content
the ability to rotate content using device accelerometer functionality
For those of you who want to start designing for the iPad, here is a fully editable and scalable PSD file constructed using vectors by Teehan + Lax you can download to use.
The workable screen design is formatted to 768×1024 so anything you design in the Photoshop file can easily be brought over to the SDK. Cheers T+L!
Here’s an interesting idea – digital board games on the iPad! Yes please
‘The multi-touch display is perfect for moving pieces around a board and because the iPad is a computer it can store thousands of games and add a variety of interactive features. In addition to animated Monopoly playing pieces, for example, you could also use the iPad’s Wi-Fi or 3G to play games with friends and family across the world. There’s even scope to create an iPad board game that works with iPhones.
Imagine a Scrabble iPad game that used iPhones as letter holders. You could hold up your iPhone so that no one else could see your letters and when you were ready to make a word on the Scrabble iPad board, you could slide them on to the board by flicking the word tiles off your iPhone.’