Whoa. The Popular Science app looks amazing. Great comparison of magazine art direction for iPad by Brad Colbow.
Neighborhoodr looks amazing on the iPad, it is the perfect kind of website for this device.
Hopefully this is strictly taken as constructive criticism, but I don’t agree that the current layout of Neighborhoodr looks amazing. It looks good, sure, yet most sites will on the iPad. From this pic it seems as if there’s a whole lot of room for you to take advantage of. Obviously you want to avoid a cluttered look and keep it a clean read, so I wonder how it would look if you guys experimented with a horizontal scroll? That way the content would read in a similar fashion to how local weeklies
doused to.The roll out of a new device like the iPad seems like the perfect time to unveil a re-design of a site.
That is what I am kind of struggling with. The idea was to try and keep it as simple, clean and uncluttered as possible, and have the focus be on the content. People seem to have really been negative about the horizontal style navigation in my experience, so I think I want to avoid that. I do want to make it a bit wider and allow the images to fill up more of the screen.
I’d love to hear what kind of things would you like to see added, since we are actually in the midst of coming up with a concept for the next iteration of the design.
You know, when I first read this, the notion of horizontal scroll made me immediately wince, as 10 years of considering such things has conditioned me to do. But thinking more about it, on a device like the iPad, it *seems* like horizontal scroll may be more convenient than vertical scroll. I don’t yet own an iPad, and haven’t even seen one in person. But if I imagine using one, it seems that holding it in either orientation, the motion of swiping side-to-side rather than down-to-up would be easier and more natural. You know, like a magazine. Vertical scroll on an iPad seems like it would only be a bit less unnatural than reading a magazine bound at the top. The things that made horizontal scrolling a pain on traditional computers were the mouse or trackpad, especially for those that actually use the scrollbars. But things are different now, aren’t they?
Of course, the laying out of content would be a bit trickier (or at least you’d have to consider things you haven’t had to before) with columns for long blocks of text, etc. But still. It seems like the optimal form for such content on an iPad would be horizontal scroll.
Wow, look at that.
1. I love when something makes long-standing rules obsolete.
2. Somebody by me a fucking iPad already.
I hope that our neighbors know that the name is 80% because we love Arrested Development and only 20% because Goggles loves weed.
Nice. Ours is ‘Gobias Industries’. You know, like ‘Gobias some coffee’.
Wait, What - Islands are the Limit from The Notorious XX
This may be my jam for the week.
Three years, beeches. OG and what not. Time passes quickly when you rarely post. Back when I started with Tumblr, we had to make our own Zooey Deschanel pictures out of sticks and sewer water. Reblogging a post was a complex affair using postcards and a goat carcass. Uphill both ways, etc.
You fucking kids. You don’t know.
You can’t urinate on Tumblr today without hitting a post about HCR, and usually I try to avoid piling on to such things. Sure, the bill was watered-down, compromised, filled with GOP ‘ideas’, despite the lack of a single GOP vote, etc. It is also the largest piece of social legislation passed in 50 years. It does more to tackle health care costs than any piece of American legislation in history. It extends health insurance to 32 million more Americans. It is a win. A big one. For the President, for the American people, and for Nancy Pelosi.
After the Scott Brown debacle, she refused to step down and move to a small, incremental approach to fix the health care problem. She pressed through the embarrassing campaign of fear waged by the right, the epithets, the spitting, the cries of treason. Right up to the speeches before the vote, she put the entire year-long journey into clear relief, contrasting her calm, reasoned explanation of why this was good for America and good for the smoldering crater of greed our health care system has become with Boehner’s red-faced, screaming, salvia-spewing obstructionist bile.
She won. We won. She will become a speaker for the ages, and deservedly so. A role model for my daughters. A powerful, intelligent woman working for something bigger than herself.
This is what change feels like. I like this feeling. Let’s keep it going.
