iPhone app from the American Museum of Natural History

[James William Yoon]

I love it.

The app encourages exploration and playfulness. Its interface is pretty
simple and straightforward.

Interestingly though, while I get really excited about exploring the mosaic
of photos, I have almost no inclination to make use of its "Info" option to
learn more about particular photos. I'm even less inclined to comment, and
galaxies away from wanting to send any of the particular photos to my
friends. I wonder if this is because the interface encourages surface
exploration over deeper investigation (who wants to read and type when you
can pan, pinch and zoom across tens or hundreds of thousands of photos?), or
because there's a truly overwhelming number of photos I *could* read about
(and thus pick none; i.e., the problem of too many candies to choose from),
or because I'm a bad museum user, or because I have little interest in
dinosaur bones.

All of that notwithstanding, I think they did a fantastic job of creating an
app that makes it *fun* to explore photos of their space, people, artifacts,
and other domain-related things, if only for a few minutes before the
novelty dries out.

Thanks for sharing this!

Cheers,
James

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Alistair Jones <ajonesolt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Apparently the American Museum of Natural History has released an
> iPhone app for its dinosaur bones exhibit.  I would love to test it
> out, but I dont know have an iPhone...  If you check me know your
> thoughts!
>
>
> http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/02/american_museum_of_natural_history.html
>
>
> Alistair
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