Eureka iPad App

I have been working with The Times’s Eureka team to create a one-off iPad application exploring how the science
of sport is changing the human race.
We took the essence of the Eureka magazine — fantastic photography and interesting articles — and combined with interactive features and graphics to create this rich editorial application.

The Eureka team were experienced at creating a monthly supplement to the paper and so we explored how best to transform the language and content of Eureka to the iPad environment. Rejecting the notion that magazines on the iPad should work in both portrait and landscape we created the most appropriate interface for the content, keeping articles in portrait and using landscape mode for interactive features, slideshows and videos.

The application uses a specially designed navigation system that plays on the theme of science by creating
a series of modules allowing easy exploration of the app and an overview of its entire contents. We commissioned Applied Works to animate the navigation, which plays when you first open the app; and worked with TigerSpike who developed and coded the application.

Design Editor: Matt Curtis
Picture Editor: Madeleine Penny
Design: Oliver Bothwell, Fraser Lyness, Peter Robertson

The Times’s Eureka App is available in
the App Store.

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