"What is needed is a really smart way of turning advertising from a nuisance into a service. We have a very real chance of being able to do something like that."

- Josh Quittner, cited by Laura Locke in Flipboard editorial chief on how magazines are flipping out

Also notable:

So I think that as we move from a Twitter or news-feed sense of news to a restoration of relevance it becomes a lot more interesting. So, if I only have five minutes, I would love to see the most important things, not the most recent things. That’s an interesting direction for us.

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Today Disney announced a new iPad game that uses physical objects on top of an iPad. How does it work? Well, here I visit the inventor, Etienne Mineur, who shows me how it works.

There’s something deeper here, though. Etienne is an inventor who comes up with simple solutions to interesting problems and here you get some insights into his mind.

This video was made at the LIFT conference in Geneva, Switzerland, on February 3 of this year.

Responsive Web Design: the Goldilocks Approach - Blog - Articles on web design by Front, a Belfast, Northern Ireland team of web designers and developers →

Artefact's Visionary Printer Redesign →

At the heart of the SWYP (See What You Print) is a large touchscreen that allows users to see and manipulate on a 1:1 scale what the finished result will look like before hitting “print.” Pictures and documents can be previewed and edited, and unwanted areas, like those irritating margin ads, can be removed by “swyping” them off the screen. Users can also bypass the computer altogether by seamlessly connecting their camera, phone, or tablet to the printer. Once connected, they can select and crop photos with their fingers.

You’ve Already Seen This →

cameronmoll:

Unless your entire social circle was under a rock yesterday, you’ve already seen Facebook Timeline. But what’s most interesting to me is seeing the influence of two notable designers, Tom Watson and Nicholas Felton, craft and shape this refined concept.

Many designers likely had a hand in this, I recognize that. But consider Tom Watson’s Level & Tap, a site with a focus on impressive — and impressively large — images. Then consider Nicholas Felton’s Feltron Annual Reports. Put the two together and it’s clear where the influence originated from.

And if there were any doubts about that influence, Tom’s tweet yesterday should clear things up:

It should be clear now why we hired @feltron. It’s been a blast designing it.

Side note: Dustin Curtis’ Lifepath.me app is for sale on eBay as a result of yesterday’s announcement.

cjwho:

Web Design: Great IMDB Concept ~ http://bit.ly/pqN2KI

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Neven Mrgan's tumbl: Labeling the Back button →

Most “deep” apps require some amount of navigation, moving the user deeper into child views and then back out to the parent view. That navigational backtracking is typically done with a “Back” button, positioned in the top-left corner, and denoted by a pointed left side. You’ve all seen it:

A new series of web tutorials called “Don’t Fear the Internet” tries to teach web design to people who don’t want to be web designers. via Co Design

http://www.dontfeartheinternet.com/

The Relative Sizes of the World’s Largest Photo Libraries →

Facebook is by far the world’s largest photo service, but how does its massive image collection compare with other website and photo libraries? 1000memories created this interesting graphic showing the relative sizes of the world’s largest photo libraries.

How Windows 8 and iOS 5 stack up side by side.

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