Back to the future of magazines
A week ago, a Sports Illustrated’s design concept for a tablet-based magazine made the rounds of the Intertubes, raising commentary about how this is the future of magazines in the digital era.
Now, if by this people mean that magazines will be forced to become websites ―and perhaps that we will also be able to read them on tablet devices, that’s OK by me.
For I don’t really see how this concept is any different from a regular news website enhanced with multi-touch gestures.
This design concept is the future of magazines only in the sense that it is the future of news websites, who already are the present of magazines. It doesn’t solve any problem with the magazines’ business model or design that the web doesn’t already solve.
