Designing and Delivering Life Content
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The document discusses the evolution of content delivery and design from ancient petroglyphs to modern mobile applications, highlighting key figures and milestones in this progression. Martin Luther's translation of the Bible is identified as an early example of democratizing content, while Apple’s devices, starting with the iPhone, represent a shift towards mobile life content. The author emphasizes the importance of web standards and good documentation for app development, aiming to guide users through the design and distribution processes.
Designing and Delivering Life Content
- 1. Designing and delivering Life Content for anyone who needs it (wherever they need it) Kristofer Layon SXSW 2011
- 2. Moab, Utah www.wikipedia.org The graphic presentation of content started 12-15,000 years ago
- 3. Mesak Settafet, Libya www.wikipedia.org
- 4. Why were they made? • storytelling • wayfinding • life content Why were petroglyphs made?
- 5. Printing Press Johannes Gutenberg 1441 d.umn.edu The world’s most popular tablet has been around for 500 years already.
- 6. Martin Luther 1483-1546 www.wikipedia.org And here’s the world’s first mobile app developer. The app was the Bible, translated from Latin to German.
- 7. www.wikipedia.org The marriage of tech and content. This is not a new idea... and it’s always been about content more than tech.
- 8. Martin Luther • democratized content ★ through translation and increased access • made life content mobile
- 9. Photography Joseph Niépce 1826 www.wikipedia.org
- 10. Film / Motion Pictures Eadweard Muybridge 1878 www.wikipedia.org
- 11. Phonograph Thomas Edison 1899 www.wikipedia.org
- 12. “Multimedia” • 19th century innovations • barely over 100 years old! • foundation of our work today (SXSW is about all of it, right?)
- 13. London Underground Map Harry Beck 1931 www.uckfielddfas.org.uk The 20th century brought us graphic design: making complex data and stories more simple and elegant.
- 14. Apple I Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs 1976 www.computerhistory.org
- 15. Apple II Apple Computer, Inc. 1977 www.wikipedia.org
- 16. Macintosh Apple Computer, Inc. 1984 www.wikipedia.org Apple’s been doing mobile devices since 1984...
- 17. PowerBook Apple Computer, Inc. 1991 www.wikipedia.org ...trying to get it right...
- 18. Macintosh Apple Computer, Inc. 1993 www.wikipedia.org Dudes... not quite there...
- 19. iTunes Apple Computer, Inc. 2001 www.apple.com *ding* It’s about content, isn’t it, Apple?
- 20. iPod Apple Computer, Inc. 2001 www.wikipedia.org So now we need a pocket computer for our life content.
- 21. January 9, 2007 • Apple Computer, Inc. becomes Apple, Inc. • new focus on life content
- 22. iPhone Apple, Inc. 2007 www.apple.com This pocket computer just has a better screen. And a Phone app.
- 23. iPad Apple, Inc. 2010 www.apple.com
- 24. www.apple.com
- 25. Mobile applications • storytelling • wayfinding • life content
- 26. ArtAlphabet Aesthete Software, LLC 2009 My first app was content I could design. It was my only app idea.
- 28. The opportunity to design native apps with Web Standards.
- 29. The only development framework featured on Apple.com. I was sold.
- 30. (Android version launched last fall)
- 31. Web Standards • HTML • CSS • JavaScript
- 32. The pillars of today’s Web. But it’s now about more than the Web layer. Web Standards can inform other layers of the Internet, too --- like native apps and app store content.
- 35. Web Standards • Aren’t just for the Web… • …also for other layers of the Internet ★ Email, Twitter, App Stores
- 36. My book’s goals • Provide better documentation for Xcode and NimbleKit • Cover app design from A-Z • Orient you to distribution (iTunesConnect + App Store)