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Design Observer Launches iPhone App

The Design Observer iPhone App, now available for FREE to all users on the App Store, offers a quick way to survey what's new every day at the world's leading online design journal. It provides a superior mobile reading experience for all articles and allows readers to easily browse a wealth of DO content by channel, by author or by topic. Our special Mondrian view offers users an innovative, immersive interface for visually exploring articles by key images.

iPhone App screenshots

Left: Design Observer iPhone App: most recent posts. Right: Mondrian view to visually browse posts

Design Observer iPhone App offers a variety of ways to find articles by channel (left) or author (right), as well as by topic, and you can easily save your favorite posts

The app was designed and developed by Small Planet Digital, a mobile application developer based in Brooklyn, NY. "It was a pleasure partnering with the Design Observer team on the project" said Small Planet CEO Gavin Fraser, "and we're quite happy with the results, especially with the implementation of the 'Mondrian' visual browser. We hope the good folks in the Design Observer reader community like using the app as much as we loved making it!"

Design Observer also gratefully acknowledges the contribution of Khoi Vinh, who advised on this project.

About Small Planet Digital:
Small Planet Digital is a professional services firm that specializes in game and application development for mobile devices, with a particular focus on the iPhone and iPad platforms. In addition to Design Observer, Small Planet's clients include Disney Publishing, General Motors, Paramount Pictures, Hearst Magazines, R/GA and others. Happily based in Brooklyn, NY, Small Planet offers full application planning, design and development services, in addition to application marketing services. For more information, feel free to reach out via email to info@smallplanet.com.

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