Some interesting thoughts from Dan Wieden of Wieden+Kennedy on the future of television, specifically around product placement, advertising and social interaction.
Best iPad Apps for Design
9 May
It’s always an honour to be asked to contribute content to magazines, especially to be joined by some of the web industry’s biggest names.
Along with Sir Jeffrey Zeldman, Elliott “The Fro” Jay Stocks and Dan Mall, Creative BloQ asked us what our favourite design apps are for the iPad.
There are many obvious choices such as Keynote and Dropbox so I selectively picked two invaluable tools I use to help make my ideas a reality that others might not be aware of:
iMockups (£4.99)
A great app for quickly creating interactive low-fi wireframes void of detail
Gusto (£6.99)
A really useful code editor with FTP connectivity and basic site management.
You can read more on why I chose iMockups and Gusto along with the other 20 Best iPad Apps for Design.
User Friendly iPad Text Editing
5 May
This suggestion for improving the text editor user interface on iPad is pure genius – using double finger swipes over the keyboard to navigate the cursor or hold Shift to highlight.
Apple need to make this happen.
Angry Birds Space
4 May
Love this promotional site for Angry Birds Space. As you scroll, the bird directs you around the content using similar motions from the game. It even senses the scroll motion and changes the orientation of the bird accordingly.
The game is fantastic too. Having played it for a month or so, I love the additional game mechanics introduced where you have to take into consideration extra factors.
Available on the App Store.
Project Re:Brief
4 May
Project Re:Brief is an interesting concept from Google, considering how some of America’s most iconic advertising campaigns could be repurposed for the web, especially with the growing mobile audience and responsive web movement.
With such powerful brands like Coca-Cola, Volva and Avis as case studies, it could be quite interesting to see how this pans out.
