To see what they can do to retain the ‘millennial’ audience, the BBC is testing new forms of news stories on mobile. Pretty cool is the ‘scrubbable’ video story.
Category: Mobile
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BBC introduces vertical video to News app
The BBC has started trialling vertical video in its News app for mobile. Here’s a blog post from James Metcalfe, a manager of the news apps for the BBC.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhsQI9vdopY[/youtube]
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Facebook’s interaction design aid – Origami
Facebook have released an internal interaction design aid called Origami which enhances Apple Quartz Composer to do useful interface prototyping, with an emphasis on animation.
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Slow mobile web apps
Comprehensive argument as to the technical reasons why mobile web apps (relying on JavaScript performance) are slow compared to their native-apps.
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Native apps vs web apps
Matt Gemmell rounds up the pros and cons of native applications vs web apps.
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Nice fluid web design
Jon Hicks has developed a nice fluid design that works across a range of web-viewing devices, without making too many design compromises. Based on the techniques listed in the A List Apart article on responsive web design.