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Ryan Essmaker is a designer and web developer with a soft spot for good typography, responsive design, and well-written markup. In his spare time you can find him with camera in hand or strumming on the ole six-string making sweet, sweet melodies.

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The Great Discontent
“ Thing is, designing an iPad app shouldn’t be “just like designing a print product.” It’s not the same design you want to bring to new platforms, it’s the content. Issue-based publishing puts a straitjacket on digital content, freezing it into a big arbitrary block of pages and articles, sealed with print metaphors. This approach privileges print and its design conventions, imposing them on new platforms. And why should that be the case? Looking out five or ten years, will print be the winner among these platforms? Nope. So why should we rely on print’s design conventions and workflows now?
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— Josh Clark at Global Moxie

Wise words.

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