DesignScene for iPad Is the 21st Century Muse [Video]

Apps for consuming web pages on the iPad have largely shaken down into two categories: dedicated apps for individual sites and RSS readers populated with a users’ selected feeds. DesignScene is something else entirely: a prepackaged bundle of all-things design.

It bills itself as ” a real-time inspiration app for graphic designers drawing from myriad relevant sources,” however it’ll entice anyone fascinated with design, whether meaning reading through Design Observer blog posts or just flicking through assorted images on Ffffound. It’s part photo browser and part RSS reader, but by virtue of being both those things it’s something more than them, too: it’s the rare app that makes a speciality of a single genre of content in preference to a single model of presentation. That’s cool!

Six panels containing images from some 50 sites comprise the ” visual” section of the app. Each panel is vaguely related-infographics, packaging, graphic design, etc-and may be flicked through on the app’s main screen or jumped into for full screen viewing. The best side of the key screen shows an RSS-like list of aggregated posts from a set of over 30 sites. In both cases, with the photographs and the text, the whole post would be accessed with an in-app browser.

For those who find themselves on top of their RSS game, $4 might sound just a little steep for what is actually a well-designed, dedicated (but therefore uncustomizable) RSS reader. But the belief of having a well-packaged portal into a single form of content-aggregating sites on a more local scale-is an engaging one, one who’s particularly greatest for the iPad. [ DesignScene ]

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