Mario Garcia’s ten lessons for a good tablet application

The speed of the tablet market development is like no market sector has ever seen before. If publishers finally started to think not in terms of “whether to be on the tablet or not” but “when to do so”, Mario Garcia has one advice: get on the tablet bandwagon quickly! Read more

Rethinking the design for the Mobile Web

Bryan Rieger of Yiibu shares his experiences in designing websites for mobile devices. A lot of interesting insights and data: Read more

Annita Beysen: focus on consumers, not a product

”Products will come and go, websites will come and go, newspapers will come and go, consumers will always stay,” says Annita Beysen, an owner of U-sentric consultancy. Read more

Obama’s victory too late for printed editions of European newspapers

Europeans could learn this morning results of the US elections from any medium — except printed editions of their newspapers. Have been the online editions any better? Read more

Redesign is not only about changing a costume

“Newspaper design is not only about colors, typography, graphics. It gives the newspaper a real personality, an identity,” says Michel Gaffre, design consultant from France. Read more

New WSJ magazine: a new standard or a flop?

Financial Times supplement ”How to Spend It” is like a BMW 3-series, and this is a BMW 7-series, says Robert Thomson, an editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal. Is he right? Read more

News site from scratch

What would you do with a blank tablet? What would you do without the legacy business? What do you think would be most important in launching not just a news website but a digital news service with no baggage?

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Excited about a printed newspaper

They describe him as an “old school” that “doesn’t hang around on TV … You can’t get him to go out for lunch after Wednesday. He is a very, very involved editor.”

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Grand designs must have stories to back them up

“Why are newspapers losing circulation? The answer to his question is of course content,” says Harold Evans, a newspaper design innovator and former editor of The Sunday Times (of London).
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