- I would like to create my layouts on different popular 5k runs. Each of my articles would be on a different 5k and explaining why each run is unique from others. These articles would be part of a health and fitness magazine. Some of the 5ks I was thinking about were: The Color Run/Color Me Rad, Tough Mudder, Run For Your Lives, Electric Run, and Race For A Cure.
The title of my magazine is Heart & Health.
I also read Tablet Usability by Jakob Nielson. These are my notes:
- Flat design and improperly rescaled design are the main threats to tablet usability, followed by poor gestures and workflow.
- Although tablet-specific applications have plenty of usability flaws, the problems are mainly the same as those that plague traditional application design: difficult features, a mismatch with user workflow, and poor instructions that people don’t read.
- we advise most companies to stick to their website and invest the resources in improving web usability, which still suffers badly in most companies
- don’t make your tablet app a scaled-up phone app
- The two main threats to tablet usability are:
- Flat design. Why not allow users to easily see what they can do? We need a golden middle ground between skeuomorphism and a dearth of distinguishing signifiers for UI elements.
- Rescaled design. Whether shoehorned down from a bigger screen or grotesquely exploded from a phone screen, too many Android designs simply don’t fit the tablet’s actual screen size. (Poorly rescaled designs are less common on iPad and Windows tablets, probably because of smaller device diversity.)
I also read The Best Digital Magazines Available for iPad. These are my notes:
- the horizontal and vertical layout of an iPad creates a cross and the middle of that cross is the "safe zone" which will be viewed from both orientations
- some of the best digital magazines are those by:
- Popular Science
- Wired
- Business Week
- and New Yorker
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