I have got to admit, like a lot of folks out there I have yet to get excited about the iPad. It is hard for a lot of designers and techies to imagine a use for it, but I think at times we forget designers and techies are a small percentage of the world populus. Sure iPad is a less than stellar name for a product, but it is still a really cool concept. I think Stephen Fry does say it best in this article.
I think designers can look at the iPad like a new land of interactive goodness to be conquered, like the folks at iA did with their iPad template (based on the work of out own TO based Teehan+Lax). Let’s try not to forget we design for the world, not ourselves, and that there is potential for innovation here.
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well said! while i’m not gonna buy one, i think it’ll be a gamechanger for the consumption of interactive media.
Kinda excited to read comics and graphic novels on this (if I decide to get one). It will definitely open a lot of possibilities for independents to get their work out there.
Now if only I could design on it. I’d pick one up in a heartbeat if it let me do that.