UX Magazine’s Kristina Halvorson dissects the role of Content Strategy in UX Design today.

How to build with a focus on touch-interaction.

"Content strategy plans for the creation, delivery, and governance of content. Better content. Content people care about. Content that supports your business objectives and meets your users' goals. It's a long-term fix for content problems of all sizes."

Information Architects do not disappoint with this pretty thorough overview on the subject of designing for the Apple iPad.

"People want to do more with their mobile phones, but their desire is frustrated by two classes of limitations. One is related to the device, its hardware and software. The other is related to the context, and comprises perceptual, motor, cognitive and social aspects. This paper will discuss some of the opportunities and challenges that this complex scenario presents to multimodality, which can be a key factor for a better design of mobile interfaces to help people do more on their mobile phones, requiring less time and attention." — L Chittaro 2010

Jeff Jarvis comments on what he sees as the iPad's inability to create and share "content" as easily as he'd hoped.

"We all like to play God. We like to imagine that the design we create is ushered into the world and all those who use it have an epiphany…they do things exactly in the way we have prescribed. They approach, use, and experience our design in the manner we envisioned, resulting in an amazing user experience."

"PixelPads are a UX designer and developer’s dream. The first and only pixel-based sketchpad system that precisely matches the size and resolution of each companion device."

Relpost diggs deep to bring you fresh content from the hottest web designers and the coolest blogs serving you juicy, related goodness. Handpicked related posts for Web Designers.

"I held a 6-hour workshop at NSConference in both the UK and USA recently, focusing on software design and user experience. Predictably, an extremely popular topic was the iPad, and how to approach the design of iPad applications. I gave a 90-minute presentation on the subject to start each workshop, and I want to share some of my observations here."

"…Or, to put it another way: Posterous is an *engineered product*, while Tumblr is a *designed product*." & "…The second is that for consumer web apps today, design matters more than technology."

Stories have defined our world. They have been with us since the dawn of communication, from cave walls to the tall tales recounted around fires. They have continued to evolve with their purpose remaining the same; To entertain, to share common experiences, to teach, and to pass on traditions.

Once you hit that power button, though, and start looking at apps, you begin to feel the difference. No longer restricted by a 480px x 320px resolution, applications begin to approximate their desktop counterparts in a way we’ve never seen. Instead of focusing on adding a camera or dishwasher, Apple put all of its effort into software, by redefining the UI iPod, Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and every other default app.

Andy Budd: "The UK has some of the top fashion schools in the world, producing graduates of outstanding calibre. We’ve got graphic design schools staffed by some of the top names in the industry, and product design schools creating our next generation of innovators. So why don’t we seem able to do the same for the world of interaction design?"

Naz Hamid: "While we’re focusing on design for higher education, we’ll also look at what we’ve learned by designing for higher education and how it affects design for other types of websites and organizations." I'll be keeping an eye out for commentary coming from this SXSW panel.

iA: "UX Design. [It's] Sort of preposterous isn’t it? The idea that someone thinks they can control how you feel."

iA: "Technology often develops from primitive to complicated to simple. The web develops faster and is more client focused than traditional technologies. Web development is cheaper, more flexible and most importantly: everyone can contribute to its development. In concrete terms: Better interaction design, less graphic design. Better user experience, less debates about taste. Faster technology, more reliable design standards…"

Squarespace's Creative Director Tyler Thompson redesigns airline boarding cards. Epic.

Via iA: Most websites are crammed with small text that’s a pain to read. Why? There is no reason for squeezing so much information onto the screen. It’s just a stupid collective mistake that dates back to a time when screens were really, really small.

Via iA: "95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logical to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography."

Max Design's thoughts on line length. Interesting optic constraints mentioned.

Andrew Maier provides UX Booth readers with a… well… ‘Complete Beginner’s Guide to Interaction Design’ funnily enough.

Bill Buxton: “Just forget about graphical consistency across browsers. When you think about browsers and the interactions we have over the Internet as being this rich, it’s just absurd… Basically, the only thing that matters in terms of consistency going forward is consistency of the quality of user experience. And until we get that, by trying to make things consistent on every single browser on every single platform, we completely degrade the quality of user experience—or we homogenize it to the point where it’s just boring and mediocre.”

Alfredo Trivino describes his redesign of ‘The Australian’ newspaper.

Information Architects developed a pretty tight concept around the idea of usability, readability and cross media connection in their recent unsuccessful bid to redesign the Switzerland's Tages Anzeiger Newspaper.