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So we just won a YCN award. Huge thank you’s to George Dunkley and Rachel O’Sullivan, all our hard work paid off!!!!

App progress

This is the completed article page. I’m really pleased with how this page has turned out, as there is a lot of information to display but it doesn’t look to cluttered.

I resized some of the images and moved around some of the captions to give more padding. I like how the group image runs over the top of the stripes as it adds a layer of depth.

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Think this one is may favourite so far.

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Finally, these are the screens from one of the reviews in the magazine. This would also be across a double page in the magazine, but I think that it works at lot better in the iPad format. This format has exactly the same print content at the print version e.g. the text, images and graphs; but it also contains the video trailer for the film.

The images placed in the review are not a slideshow and the graph at the bottom can be made larger by clicking on it.

This is an example of a scrolling page that works slightly better. The content is a bit easier to read due to the width of the columns. I think that this shouldn’t be as much of a problem for us as we are using a landscape layout rather than portrait.

These are two screens from the opening pages of Total Film. The magazine uses a contents page showing the most important articles placed in iPads. The user can then click on these and they will be taken to that article in the magazine.

The second screen is the introductory page of the magazine. This always uses the same layout of a two column grid with scrollable content. This is one of the pages that I think should be reconsidered as in the print magazine all this content is a double page spread, but it fits into one page of the iPad issue.

This requires a lot of scrolling and the actual scrolling fields aren’t that big due to the large title at the top of the screen. I think that this is definitely something we should avoid when designing the STF app.

Here is an example of how wired use different interactive features to display different content. When the page is first loaded the picture of the product is shown with the two small buttons.

These control different features; one being the option to bring up captions and the other to change the image to another view.

You can also swipe at the bottom of the screen to bring up the information about the product.

Some more research into app functionality. George downloaded some free issues from different magazines do that we could see how they use the interactive features in their issues.

This comes from Wired magazine and is a good use of how scrollable frames could be used. The page is just an image with a title when it is first loaded, but the tab at the bottom of the page prompts users to scroll to reveal the text of the article.

Favourite time of the week!

How times have changed. When I was a kid I used to get coloured pencils….. now you get toy ipads!

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