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Designing for Time-Shifted Reading
By Gretchen Anderson, Jan 19, 2011

A recent article says that our reading patterns with digital information have been affected by mobile devices. More and more, we are time shifting our reading away from our PCs during the day and onto mobile devices during commute times, or later at night.


Image courtesy of readitlaterlist.com.

Widgets like Instapaper may be tiny but their effects are huge, and it makes me wonder: What does this mean for those of us who design reading experiences?

When I look at this...

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iPad, magazine, Publishing, reading
Magazines and the Reading Ecosystem
By Gretchen Anderson, Nov 01, 2010

Two recent columns by Khoi Vinh and Mike Turro take on the future of magazines in a world of tablets. Khoi Vinh, former Design Director of the New York Times, argues that the current batch of iPad apps "run counter to how people use tablets today and, unless something changes, will remain at odds with the way people will use tablets as the medium matures." Certainly, the apps from magazines like Wired, the New Yorker and other Conde Nast publications are experiments in a new medium. What I appreciate is that, unlike when magazines went to the web, they are at least recognizable as magazines, with rich visual presentation and spreads that bring coherence to long, flowing text and images.

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Magazines, Media, Publishing, reading, Tablet