Interview with Phillip R. Tiongson
Some weeks ago the iPad world was taken by surprise with a very impressing application. Biblion is the New York Public Library first application and was developed by Phillip R. Tiongson and his team from Potion Design. I’ve reviewed the Biblion application for the Talking New Media website and, since I was so blown away … Read more
Narratives for digital distribution
EDIT: An edited version of this article was published on Nieman Storyboard website becoming the site’s most read article in 2011. The way we tell stories in the print media has been, mostly, the same for some time now. Space constraints and graphic layout have made the narrative flow a broken one. With the advent … Read more
Digital storytelling made easy!
On my last article I’ve written about interactive infographics on tablets and the problem facing newsrooms around the world. Where previously newsrooms where able to produce such graphics for their online publications using Adobe’s Flash, for the iPad that knowledge was no longer useful. On the same article I mentioned a new software, named Hype, … Read more
It’s time to show, not to tell!
Show, don’t tell is one of Innovation’s Media Consulting mantras and one I’m very happy to share (disclaimer, I work as a consultant for Innovation). The idea is that infographics or visual journalism present a great, engaging way for publishers to share their stories with their readers. Not only visual journalism is one engaging way … Read more
Designing for the touch interface
Ever since I saw the Objectified movie, I was struck by this simple sentence, by Naoto Fukasawa Design dissolving in behavior Beautiful, isn’t it? Think about it, what you design is not only transparent for the user of your object, but it also impels its user to behave with your design in a way that … Read more
Interview with Joe Zeff
Joe Zeff needs no introduction and neither does his work. I’ve been a huge fan of Joe’s work for some time now and it has been with great interest that I’ve been following Joe Zeff Studio work designing and publishing iPad apps. In the last weeks Joe’s studio launched two new applications that are getting … Read more
Where are all the interactive journalists?
In the beginning there was the Internet. And that’s how journalism turned digital. Newsrooms where formed to ‘feed’ this new beast. Later on, these new team where integrated with the print team (or should have been). Thus appeared the online journalist. Nowadays, with the push mobile has given publishers around the world, a new challenge … Read more
Sharing content with a value
Just a couple of days ago I was reading Cameron Koczon great article Orbital Content. I really enjoy his view of users/readers being in the center of orbital content and the idea of applications (whatever form and platform) being the gravitational force to drive that flowing content onto the user/reader. I was then even more … Read more
New Digital World
At this time, when everyone focus only on tablets, we should realize what is really happening because of these new devices. In September of last year, Chris Anderson of the U.S. magazine Wired, wrote that the web had died. With his unique wit and his ability to hit certain fringes of society, Chris Anderson may … Read more
