February 17, 2010
"Someone asked me the other day, “Why would you want to build an iPad app when you could just use your website?” And I think what touch gives you is such a different way of accessing information as a user. It’s physically direct. You’re much more focused — you can literally touch a fact and get more information about it. So I think therefore you do want to actually work on something new. You don’t want to just think it’s a big space which you’re gonna access the browser — you want to really think about touch, the way the user manipulates the information, the ways which you might be able to take a photograph, look at it more closely, enlarge it, put it away again, continue reading the story."

What should news apps on the iPad look like? John-Henry Barac on space & touch in digital news design » Nieman Journalism Lab

The interaction the user has with the text and images in these new iPad apps will… and should… be different than current websites. The static experience should transform.

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