TAKEAWAY: Our contdown to the Power of the Tablet conference at Poynter (June 14-15) continues with Reed Reibstein providing us links of interest to get us thinking tablets. Today: designing and the iPad
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As we approach Poynter’s The Power of the Tablet conference, I turn over the blog to our Garcia Media intern Reed Reibstein, who will also be blogging live from the conference. Reed’s idea is to “warm up” to the conference with daily postings of essential articles that will help everyone understand the tablet as a new journalistic platform.
Countdown to the Conference: 7 days to go
Designing for iPad: Reality Check
Approaching app design with his trademark frankness, Oliver Reichenstein of Information Architects (whose work Mario previously wrote about last year) provides guidelines for what works on the tablet screen. The article is particularly memorable for an assault on what he pronounces “kitsch,” e.g. the incomplete or unhelpful metaphors of iBooks and the Times’ Editors’ Choice app. Reichenstein happily demolishes concepts he finds misguided, which led him to write the article that will be tomorrow’s link …