The Daily est mort !

What The Daily Got Right From Day One | TechCrunch
http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/08/mg-siegler-is-at-least-half-wrong-about-the-daily/#fbcomments

“Everything you read online is completely true, unless it’s on a subject you actually know something about.”
— I read that online

 

First, if your publication is over 100MB, quit immediately, you’ve failed.

When magazines first started appearing on the iPad, I was excited. I had been a magazine lover in my youth and could not wait to explore such content again. Unfortunately, the apps required you to download entire issues before reading. And these issues were often 500MB – 700MB.

Why are these things so large? Because most publishers are simply porting their content into digital magazine formats — essentially PDFs with some interactive elements, which mainly seem to exist so ads can have some silly moving element, take longer to load, and crash often.

Then look at Arment’s The Magazine. Each issue is just a few megabytes. Sure, there are no images and no ads, but even with a copious amount of those things, I bet each issue would still come in well under 50MB — one-tenth the size of the traditional magazines. These smaller files take seconds to download as opposed to several minutes (or longer) for the bloated turd magazines. And downloading in the background works flawlessly.

UI : Le nouveau Google Map

 

J’adore le nouveau UI du nouveau GOOGLE MAP iOS.
Bon texte ici :
 http://sachagreif.com/design-details-of-google-maps-for-ios/

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http://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/

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Apple files patent for magnetic wireless charging – no contact required
http://www.techradar.com/us/news/world-of-tech/apple-files-patent-for-magnetic-wireless-charging-no-contact-required-1117194?src=rss&attr=all

 

The patent covers “various embodiments of a wirelessly powered local computer environment.” It uses a near field magnetic resonance (NFMR) to wirelessly charge devices up to 1 meter away. That’s right – no contact required.

 

 

Stratégie Obama, Apple en 500 pubs, La mort du Daily et cie

Tellement intéressant ! Ça me fascine toujours de voir comment du bon design c’est tellement plus que des belles formes, des belles fonts et des belles couleurs…

The Science Behind Those Obama Campaign E-Mails – Businessweek
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-11-29/the-science-behind-those-obama-campaign-e-mails

The bottom line: Obama’s e-mail fundraising team tested hundreds of grabby subject lines. The most successful—“Hey”— brought in millions of dollars.

 

“Every time something really ugly won, it would shock me: giant-size fonts for links, plain-text links vs. pretty ‘Donate’ buttons. Eventually we got to thinking, ‘How could we make things even less attractive?’ That’s how we arrived at the ugly yellow highlighting on the sections we wanted to draw people’s eye to.”

 

The appeals were the product of rigorous experimentation by a large team of analysts. “We did extensive A-B testing not just on the subject lines and the amount of money we would ask people for,” says Amelia Showalter, director of digital analytics, “but on the messages themselves and even the formatting.” The campaign would test multiple drafts and subject lines—often as many as 18 variations—before picking a winner to blast out to tens of millions of subscribers. “When we saw something that really moved the dial, we would adopt it,” says Toby Fallsgraff, the campaign’s e-mail director, who oversaw a staff of 20 writers.

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Toutes les pubs d’Apple sur cette page You Tube :
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=UUKB83fAKU3YoXXuGDH5B1YA&page=1

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La leçon de l’échec du quotidien sur iPad de Murdoch | Technologie
http://affaires.lapresse.ca/economie/technologie/201212/03/01-4600196-la-lecon-de-lechec-du-quotidien-sur-ipad-de-murdoch.php

 

«Si vous avez une marque très fortement reconnue et du contenu exclusif, disponible nulle part ailleurs, vous pouvez facturer un abonnement», dit-elle.

«Si vous publiez des informations qu’on peut avoir n’importe où, vous ne pouvez pas vraiment les faire payer, si bien emballées soient-elles».

 

«Il avait les inconvénients d’un quotidien – il était publié une fois par jour et pas en continu, et n’était pas bien intégré au reste d’internet – sans les avantages que l’imprimé offre toujours» pour certains lecteurs, explique-t-il.

 

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2 major lessons from the demise of The Daily | Poynter.
http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/media-lab/mobile-media/196885/2-major-lessons-from-the-demise-of-the-daily/

 

1. Audience clarity. It was difficult to grasp who exactly was the intended audience of The Daily. It excelled at interactive elements and visual appeal, but the contents were so sprawling and varied that it was tough to know who this publication was speaking for and to.

2. One platform isn’t enough. The Daily was first imagined as the daily news magazine for the iPad era. Going with a tablet-first strategy was a great, ambitious idea.

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TVA modernise son logo
http://www2.infopresse.com/blogs/actualites/archive/2012/11/30/article-41090.aspx?s=newsletter

Permier aperçu du Blackberry 10

-J’ADORE leur concept de “CORPORATE SPACE” vs “PERSONAL SPACE”… wow ! c’est brillant ! Y a même le background qui change.

-J’aime le concept de mélanger la première page avec des screenshots et les suivantes avec des icônes. C’est comme un mélange entre windows et iOS.

-J’aime beaucoup l’idée du «Blackberry Hub» accessible rapidement dans un panneau sur la gauche. (Y a aussi les menus)

-Pour les contacts j’aime le «photo oriented layout»  et la possibilité de facilement faire des groupes.

-En général le UX a l’air bien fait, mais le design graphique a l’air inspiré de Office 1995… ok… ok… Office 1998

- Maintenant j’ai hâte de voir ce que Jony nous prépare pour iOS7 ! hehe !

 BlackBerry 10 [Hands-on][HD] – YouTube.

Site Retina, Evernote5, Plan numérique pour le Québec et cie

Quelques bonnes lectures pour la fin de semaine

Today’s newspaper — no longer tomorrow’s fish wrap

http://www.inma.org/blogs/value-content/post.cfm/today-s-newspaper-no-longer-tomorrow-s-fish-wrap#ixzz2CnE77EfT

It is time to stop defining and measuring media by outdated media monikers; we need to understand consumer behaviour and how content is used. Our audiences have moved on, they come to content because it engages them; they no longer care how it is delivered or what it is called.

 

Un plan numérique pour le Québec | Nous sommes les étonnés
http://plannumeriquequebec.org/

 

(Michelle Blanc)
« Je suis étonnée que le tourisme ait un ministère, des fonctionnaires et un budget alors qu’il rapporte $10 milliards de revenus pour le Québec comparativement aux TI qui elles en rapportent $25 milliards dont 30% sont exportés aux É-U, sans aucune planification. Quel est notre plan pour empocher une portion du $4,2 billions de croissances économiques du numérique dans les pays du G20 qui est prévu d’ici 2016? »

 

Google+ a la cote chez les spécialistes du référencement – blogues | LesAffaires.com
http://www.lesaffaires.com/blogues/julien-brault/google-a-la-cote-chez-les-specialistes-du-referencement/551606

Lorsqu’un article est identifié à un auteur via son profil sur Google+, par exemple, il suffirait de quelques minutes pour qu’il soit référencé par Google. Bernard Prince, spécialiste du référencement chez Pour les PME, a donné l’exemple d’une nouvelle page référencée à peine 4 minutes après sa création. L’autre avantage d’attribuer des articles à un auteur, en utilisant les balises appropriées, est l’apparition de la photo de ce dernier dans les résultats de recherche.

 

What Steve Jobs’ Yacht Tells Us About His Design Process
http://www.cultofmac.com/201936/what-steve-jobs-yacht-tells-us-about-his-design-process/

 

Steve approached designing the yacht the same way he approached designing Apple products – stripping an object down to its essential elements. If you don’t need an optical drive, throw it out. If you don’t need extra pillows on your yacht, throw them overboard.

However, switching from an old-style, yet efficient layout based on a sidebar and tabs to a full-screen vertical panel UI poses a series of challenges that Evernote hasn’t solved in this first release. In terms of performance, panels are slow: bringing a different view in the foreground takes more animation time than tapping on a section in a sidebar, and the animations often lag and “freeze” on the iPad. I have triggered Notification Center several times when trying to swipe away a panel to switch sections. Most of all, I’m not exactly sure what’s the reason behind the panel approach. It looks good, but is it useful? It’s slow performance-wise, and it’s not better in terms of information density either: because panels are stacked, only a portion of the notes area is visible (unless a section is selected) so you’ll only see 2-4 notes in All Notes both with List and Cards view. On the iPad, Cards view is the only possible view, although it seems like the Evernote team is already considering alternatives.

 

 

How to Create Retina Graphics for your Web Designs
http://line25.com/tutorials/how-to-create-retina-graphics-for-your-web-designs

 

Once you’ve created and exported copies of all your standard images at double the size, you can begin adding them to your website using various methods. A quick note about file naming, the standard is to save your retina images directly into your usual images folder with the same filename, but with the addition of @2x on the end. So snarf.jpg would become snarf@2x.jpg.

The easy Javascript way

<script src="js/retina.js"></script>

The absolute easiest way to put your collection of retina images to use is to link up the retina.js script. Retina.js checks for@2x images in your images directory and automatically swaps them out for you.

The manual CSS way

@media only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2), only screen and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2) { header h1 a { background-image: url(images/blogspoon-logo@2x.png); background-size: 164px 148px; } } 

Alternatively, you could add your retina graphics manually to keep all your page styling within your CSS files. A media query containing min-device-pixel-ratio: 2 will target devices with 2x pixel density. Following this you replace each element’s background image with your @2x variant, but don’t forget to scale it back to the original image size using the background-sizeproperty.

The HTML way for inline images

<img src="images/snarf@2x.jpg" width="300px" height="150px" />

The CSS method is great for background images, but for inline images in your HTML you’ll have to modify the image tag. Simply add the @2x image to the source attribute, then use width and height to scale it to the original dimensions.

 

 

 

 

iPad mini, Broadcast Rebranding et cie

 Nouveau Design pour Mashable, TheNextWeb et ReadWrite

Mashable template3 blogs technologiques américains incontournables et 3 nouveaux designs, le dernier étant en date d’aujourd’hui avec la sortie de la beta de Mashable. Des points communs aux trois : des versions optimisées pour la navigation mobile, des templates aérés et avec beaucoup d’images. Le but de ces nouveaux thèmes : rendre le site agréable à Original Article: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/abry/~3/qlQOWVEYu-0/nouveau-design-pour-mashable-thenextweb-et-readwrite-19398

 

Les patrons doivent faire confiance aux créateurs | Isabelle Massé | Marketing et publicité
http://affaires.lapresse.ca/economie/marketing-et-publicite/201211/12/01-4592713-les-patrons-doivent-faire-confiance-aux-createurs.php

 

5 iPad Mini Web Design and Development Early Best Practices | Mobify
http://www.mobify.com/blog/5-ipad-mini-design-development-best-practices/

  • Cut down on HTTP requests. While tablets have screen areas close to that of laptops, their processing power is much more like phones. Additional on-page elements — like Facebook Connect and Google +1 — might fit into a tablet-sized wireframe, but real-world performance and user experience can quickly suffer.
  • Optimize your images. The iPad Mini boasts a beautiful, high-definition display that’s not quite Retina quality but close. It’s tempting to serve the largest possible image to the device and then let it take care of downsizing the image. Don’t be tempted! Not taking responsibility for your images is digitally wasteful and makes for a poor user experience. Serve the right images to the right device, full stop.
  • Manage scripts and styles. You know all those JavaScript snippets in your web page and CSS styles, or stylesheets, that load for desktop visitors? Yeah, your iPad Mini visitors don’t want them slowing down the page and sucking up device resources. Use a service like Jazzcat to concatenate JavaScript and CSS.
  • Choose CSS transitions. For animation effects on the device, use CSS transitions rather than JavaScript animations. They’re faster.
  • Bonus tip: Use 3D transforms to trigger hardware acceleration. Your users will thank you with increased usage.

 

 

Jony Ive dans le Business Insider

Extraits tiré de  : Jony Ive – Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/jony-ive-2012-10?0=sai

“At the old Apple, Ive’s handle would have never been approved because it was a superfluous feature that only added cost. At the new Apple with Steve Jobs in charge, the handle stuck”

“For instance, in Passbook, if you delete a pass, a fake paper shredder cuts the paper. It’s a neat animation, and it’s supposed to make people feel comfortable with technology — see it’s just like real life! But this design takes a lot of time and looks increasingly goofy”

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Bonne définition audio skeuomorphisme
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Je me transforme en père Noël encore cette année
Normand Brault, le «vrai père Noël» | Anne Richer | Noël

http://www.lapresse.ca/noel/200912/14/01-930889-normand-brault-le-vrai-pere-noel.php

Il s’agit d’un réseau anonyme de pères Noël. Voici comment cela fonctionne. Ceux qui travaillent dans le réseau des centres jeunesse, qui sont en contact avec des familles démunies dans les CLSC par exemple, qui savent que quelque part un enfant sera oublié à Noël, proposent à l’enfant d’écrire au père Noël et de lui fait part de sa demande.

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Le site Branchez-vous relancé
Devoir – Médias

Libéo, qui possède déjà cinoche.com, acquiert de l’empire Rogers Communications les noms de domaine et les marques de commerce du réseau Branchez-vous, qui comprend branchez-vous.com et showbizz.net. Le montant de la transaction n’a pas été révélé. Rogers a payé 25 millions à BV ! Media pour plusieurs portails, dont ces deux-là, puis les a subitement fermés en 2012. Libéo annonce son intention de relancer branchez-vous.com et showbizz.net d’ici le printemps prochain. Des embauches seront effectuées pour générer du contenu original sur les plateformes. Libéo se spécialise dans la conception de site par des logiciels libres. Cinoche.com génère plus d’un million de visites par mois.

Original Article: http://www.ledevoir.com/societe/medias/363255/le-site-branchez-vous-relance

Jony Ive maintenant responsable du UI/HI chez Apple

TRÈS BONNE NOUVELLE !!!  ;-)

8 Tacky Design Crimes That Jonathan Ive Should Set Right In iOS 7 [Feature]Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/198844/8-design-crimes-that-jonathan-ive-should-set-right-in-ios-7-feature/#BSjbuLpVPICRKxtz.99

 

Remaniements à la tête d’Apple, Tim Cook ne pardonne pas les erreurs

http://www.01net.com/editorial/578957/departs-et-remaniements-chez-apple-tim-cook-ne-pardonne-pas-les-erreurs/

 Jony Ive dirigera le développement de l’Interface Humaine dans la société », en plus de son rôle en tant que chef du design industriel. Est-ce à dire que la vieillissante interface d’iOS va enfin être revue ou en tout cas, qu’elle évoluera plus vite ? Le temps nous le dira.

Why Apple Products Will Now Stop Failing – Datamation
http://www.datamation.com/mobile-wireless/why-apple-products-will-now-stop-failing-1.html

 Apple’s hardware guy is now in charge of software design.

The man in charge of software used to be Scott Forstall, who it is rumored was essentially fired for three reasons. First, he was said to be overly ambitious, as well as “abrasive and combative.” Second, he was not only primarily responsible for the disastrous Maps debacle, he refused to apologize for it. And finally, he had a love skeuomorphic design, and insisted on building into Apple products.

And that’s what’s so interesting about Ive’s new authority over software. Ive apparently hates skeuomorphic design.

Ive is the kind of designer who obsesses over matching form with function, and stripping away extraneous elements. You’ll note that the iPhone and iPad have one button on the front, for example.

iOS software is about to change radically.

Jony Ive, Surface, Scroll et autres sujets intéressants

Tim Cook emails employees; thanks Scott Forstall, says Bob Mansfield to stay on for two years
http://9to5mac.com/2012/10/29/tim-cook-emails-employees-thanks-scott-forstall-says-bob-mansfield-to-stay-on-for-two-years/

Jony Ive will provide leadership and direction for Human Interface (HI) across the company in addition to his longtime role as the leader of Industrial Design. Jony has an incredible design aesthetic and has been the driving force behind the look and feel of our products for more than a decade. The face of many of our products is our software and the extension of Jony’s skills into this area will widen the gap between Apple and our competition.

 

Apple SVP Design Jony Ive speaks on Apple’s design process and the ‘Bankruptcy Days’
http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/30/apple-svp-design-jony-ive-speaks-on-apples-design-process-and-the-bankruptcy-days/

“It sounds a little flippant, but it’s the truth. Our goal and what makes us excited is to make great products,” said Ive. “If we are successful people will like them and if we are operationally competent, we will make money.”

 

Microsoft Surface Is Futuristic, But Apple Has Nothing To Worry About Yet [Opinion]
http://www.cultofmac.com/198343/microsoft-surface-is-neat-but-apple-has-nothing-to-worry-about-yet-opinion/

I took a visit to my local Microsoft Store last night and sat at the Surface table while listening to customers ask retail staff about the device. Most people seem pretty confused about the software. One guy started getting very very confused as to why he couldn’t install iTunes on the Surface if it runs “Windows.” Other people asked about their favorite apps that run on Windows 7 and were disappointed to find out that it wasn’t available on Windows RT.

 

An alternate universe – Marco.org
http://www.marco.org/2012/10/26/an-alternate-universe

Apple’s products say, “You can’t do that because we think it would suck.” Microsoft’s products say, “We’ll let you try to do anything on anything if you really want to, even if it sucks.”

 

10-tendances-cle-en-marketing – medias-et-communications – techno - LesAffaires.com
http://www.lesaffaires.com/techno/medias-et-communications/10-tendances-cle-en-marketing/550486/3

Il y a 5,6 milliards de téléphones pas intelligents sur la planète, versus 835 millions de téléphones intelligents. Donc, il y a un fort potentiel de croissance vers l’intelligence mobile. «Les outils de géolocalisation remettront la publicité locale au goût du jour», prévoit Luc Dupont.

 

The Return of the Scroll
http://www.usabilitypost.com/2012/10/29/the-return-of-the-scroll/

The first version of Apple’s eBook reading app, iBooks, followed Amazon and the other readers in implementing a page interface. That was the norm. Amazon itself has a set of Kindle apps for various other devices, including the iPad, which also has the very same page based interface. But since the device is no longer bound by the limitations of older technology, does it make sense to use that same interface metaphor based on the pages of a physical book?

 

Génération Dolan | Luc Boulanger | Actualités
http://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/201207/28/01-4560286-generation-dolan.php

«Pour eux, rien n’est coulé dans le béton. Il n’y a pas de contrat à vie ou de permanence, plutôt un horizon infini de choix, ce qui donne le vertige. Les jeunes ont un rapport extrême avec le monde.»

Intéressant : Why Apple Could Still Own the Living Room of the Future

Why Apple Could Still Own the Living Room of the Future

http://www.cultofmac.com/198479/why-apple-could-still-own-the-living-room-of-the-future/

Tomorrow’s TVs will do everything. They’ll be Internet computers, game consoles, multimedia entertainment systems, video phones, and — importantly — will be controllable via arbitrary mobile touch devices. And they’ll offer sci-fi user interfaces like in-air gestures and voice command.