This Super-Clean Smart Screen Puts a Newspaper on Your Wall

Sometimes no user interface is the best user interface

Paper on Thanksgiving Day, 2019. Content: © 2019 The New York Times Company

There’s something special about the layout of a print-edition newspaper. A news website has infinite vertical scrolling space, but a printed front page is fixed to the same size every day. This constraint creates a very particular aesthetic and — if done well — a sense of…