One of the first games I ever worked on was The New York Times: Crosswords for Blackberry. It was a noble attempt at a crosswords game despite the platform using a trackball cursor. In 2009 I was given the opportunity to remake the game for iPhone, and boy, I had ideas. The interface on the iPhone version was a much more pleasing experience to design and play with.
One cool feature that I included in the front end was the ability to read the cover story from the daily New York Times newspaper. Another unique feature was a skyline of NYC that changed depending on the time of day.
UI examples from The New York Times: Crosswords, by Magmic Games.
