Over the past 6 months we have been doing quite a lot of tablet-specific UX work here at Skyron, looking at how to organise, style and optimise content-rich pages. A bit of research into news apps reveals that there are 3 schools of thought when it comes to delivering current news content. For the sake of this post, we named them Flowing Stream, Assorted Boxes and Sliding Panels.

Flowing Stream

This type of layout displays the content items into a single or multiple streams that require the user to scroll horizontally to access them all. It is used by brands like Fox News, Sky News and Pulse.

Fox News is the richest layout with each stream serving a different purpose. Bit confusing at first but it all makes sense after a minute or two:

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