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Universal Mind Senior UX Design Specialist and Smashing Magazine writer/editor, Francisco Inchauste, debates Fast.Co.Design author, John Pavlus, on the future direction of UI.

Our Executive Director of UX, Erik Loehfelm, predicts a wave of new digital publishing apps across a wide range of industries in this article for Mashable—five new types of digital publications to watch for in 2012.

Jimi Hendrix: The Complete Experience, an iOS app developed by Universal Mind, is bringing the album experience back to music …maybe even in a bigger and better way than albums ever did.

If you’re an iOS user interested in checking out an app that can show off some of the new features packed in to iOS 5 (and really, why wouldn’t you be?), the folks at Sony BMG Music Entertainment and Universal Mind may have just the thing for you.

There’s no rocker quite like Jimi Hendrix, and there’s no app quite like Jimi Hendrix: The Complete Experience.

Sony Music, Experience Hendrix and Universal Mind have teamed up for an iOS Jimi Hendrix app. The free download offers text, photos and videos, as well as an interactive map showing key places in his life. And music? If you own songs already, they can be played in full. Otherwise it’s iTunes samples and buy links.

Janie Hendrix, President and CEO of Experience Hendrix LLC noted, “We continue to celebrate Jimi Hendrix, his music, life and legacy. This app is nothing short of a revolutionary development in ‘Jimi Land’.”

The times they are ‘a changin’, but that doesn’t mean rock icons are being left in the dust. While newer acts and digital innovators like Bjork are surging ahead in the app game, it seems some legends are catching up — or at least their labels are.