The Apple field guide
Posted in: UncategorizedFastcompany ha stilato una personale serie di consigli su come e dove usare i nostri amati device della mela.
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The most exciting new hardware launched by Apple since the iPhone, the iPad presents a brand new platform for consuming online content. To perfectly tailor our publication to the touch-screen medium, we developed the Cool Hunting application—a free app (downloadable now from iTunes).
Pulling off a project like this takes an amazing team. In our case we worked on the design with BBH and development with Front-Ended. None of this would have been possible without our launch sponsor Cadillac or our ad network Largetail.
Combining the strengths of the iPad with those of our recently re-designed site, in landscape mode you can scroll laterally through all of our stories or filter by category. With a simple two finger swipe, you can move from one story to the next, with images bordering the top and information displayed on the left hand side. Videos expand to consume the entire screen, taking advantage of the iPad’s gorgeously crisp display. While the horizontal view is more visual and immersive, the portrait view puts the focus on headlines, allowing you to quickly scan articles.
While many publications are taking a more literal approach to translating their content from print to pad (or web to pad), we chose to create an interface that best suits the user experience and creates new opportunities for our advertising partners. For Cadillac, the first brand to leverage our custom, single-sponsor approach, we worked with BBH to create a section that contains weekly updates of iPad-only Cool Hunting stories, advertorial and content specifically about the CTS-V Coupe.
Available for free from iTunes, we couldn’t be more excited about the application and the seemingly endless possibilities presented by the iPad.
Always ahead of the curve, even 20 years ago Apple envisioned computers as a source of personal entertainment—a mobile device that could capture images, play music, and serve as a platform for viewing catalogs and magazines. In a recent Fast Company article, Smart Design co-founder Tom Dair takes a look back to 1989 when Apple challenged his company and a couple others to develop concepts for a tablet device.
With only 30 days to complete the project, the Smart Design team got busy imagining various uses for the tablet. The prototype included features such as a high-quality lens for directly capturing and working with images, a guitar chord touch screen that allowed users to strum along with music played on built-in speakers, as well as a bevy of solutions for carrying and protecting the rectangular aluminum machine.
Possibilities for the tablet seemed limitless—Smart even imagined taking it to the moon. Now working on how publications will be viewed on the new iPad, the renowned design studio continues to experiment with the future of technology.
Une démonstration digitale impressionnante par Alexx Henry pour cette version très spéciale du magazine VIVmag. Une exploitation au maximum des capacités de l’iPad afin de présenter ce magazine web rempli d’animations 3D, d’interactivité et de graphisme. Vidéo dans la suite.
Will pensa che il nuovo Magic Mouse di Apple sia un prodotto fantastico con un solo grave problema: non è ergonomico. Per risolvere il problema in parte, si è inventato questo supporto di silicone.
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Dezeenwire: Jonathan Ive, senior vice president of industrial design at Apple, and other key Apple staff explain the design of the iPad in a video on Apple’s website.
Related story: iPad by Apple
Après la présentation du mockup il y a 2 semaines, voici le lancement officiel de la tablette Apple intitulé iPad. Un design 4/3 très fin, et au niveau caractéristiques l’objet dispose du WiFi/3G, de l’accéléromètre, et des applications tels que Safari, iCal, Maps, YouTube ou le nouveau iBooks.
En détails :
– processeur Apple A4 1GHz, autonomie de 10h, boussole, haut-parleur et microphone.
– toutes les applications iPhones fonctionneront sur la tablette iPad.
– un prix de vente à partir de 499$ jusqu’à 830$.
– disponible fin mars.
Un beau travail et mock-up (prototype d’interface utilisateur) autour de l’Apple Tablet, très attendue et prévue normalement pour le 26 janvier. Un concept et un design produit conçu par le graphiste Rodolphe Desmare. Les clichés sont à découvrir en grande taille dans la suite.
En high resolution : Apple Tablet 1 / Apple Tablet 2 / Apple Tablet 3
Apple vient de présenter sa nouvelle souris, la Magic Mouse. Dotée du bluetooth et entièrement sans fil, elle est équipée de la technologie multi-touch mise au point pour l’iPhone : il suffira de glisser ses doigts sur la surface. Livrée avec les nouveaux iMacs ou disponible au prix de 69 €.