The reading experience on the iPad has influenced the design of this blog. I cut the share buttons, retweet counters, time stamps, etc. What’s left is a clean sheet of paper with some ideas to make you a better presentation designer. Now it’s purely up to the quality of the content whether ideas here will spread or not. What do you think?
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The blogs looks awesome now. But I have a concern with the retweet button.
You have to help people spread the word and this action button make it easier for the readers.
So you might have to bring back a few action buttons on popular appeal :)
Your iPad experiment is making me think about changing the way my blog looks.
It is contagious :-)
I think I would read more of your postings if the email had the subject in the Subject. As it is, each email has the exact same subject line and there is nothing to influence me to open any in particular.
The Sender already says "Sticky Slides" so you can leave that out of the Subject with no loss of info. The "ideas to change ... at a time" is a catchy line -- the first two or five times. But when that is the only thing I see in my email, it is easy to skim over.
It's the equivalent of a slide presentation where the company logo is the most obvious thing on every slide. I think you would recommend against that.
I hope this helps,
August
Aside from that, I love the focus on the content and the ideas in each post.
1. I wonder what % read articles through goolge reader etc? I know I do, and it tells me 788 others also subscribe to your feed, so, your site layout matters now.
2. Is optimising for the iPad really that important, what % of your traffic will come through that?
Not trying to be nasty here, just some thoughts. Love the blog and keep up the great work!
I guess one could apply this rule to any design, not just interior decorating.