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Manasi Agarwal | UX Designer, Adobe India Graphic design | New media
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‘tsundoku’ (n.) is the constant act of buying books, but never reading them. Specifically, it is letting books pile up.
me in school me in 2016
Same amount of content
Dierent patterns, media & content types
The Future of Reading IxDA 2016
#1 : IS SOCIAL & CONNECTED
Prior tastes & social network recommenda.ons. Variety in conversaEon when the media consumed is all the same?
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Collabora.ve content authoring systems. We will read more non-ďŹ c.on, and in the form of meta-commentaries. Comments and annotaEons could be moneEsed like in-app purchases
Penflip
Reedsy
Brainpickings
Markups in Text
Wearables+Data will integrate with our reading habits. The FITBIT for our content consump.on pa<erns. Why worry: Privacy? Reading for external validaEon.
#2 : IS LESS TEXT
The ďŹ&#x201A;at design of text: enhancing scannability for speed reading/skimming (what page breaks do for print, headings and pull quotes do for digital)
Concise/Summarised version of books, the informaEon snack-diet Curators as publishers, Algorithms as assistance. What happens to understanding and reten.on, struggling with complexi.es?
Dwindling aVenEon spans spawn more remedia.ons into video/movie/podcast formats. Sub-vocalisaEon deterioraEon, less immersion and ďŹ&#x201A;ow
#3 : IS MEDIA AGNOSTIC & INTERACTIVE
Older media/print books will have layers of digital content. Technology as augmenta.on, not replacement.
Experiences of books will be provided as packages by smarter publishers, all formats in one system for cross device compaEbility. A truly responsive system.
Ac.ve reading will increase. Books published as apps or games, hypertext ďŹ c#ons What happens to: ImaginaEon when everything is pre visualised?
Designing reading: - Foster distracEon free, noEďŹ caEon-less content - Reward longer reading Emes - Choose content speciďŹ c formats and media - Using technology as a connecEon, more than replacement
Thanks! Keep in touch! Twitter / Medium: @manasi_leo manasiagarwal27@gmail.com