Our team at Teague worked with the printer group at HP to move beyond the printed page. We designed a full-color e-reader tablet experience before the iPad came out. Our focus was on bringing together traditional printed media and digital content to a single reading experience that felt inviting to use and easy to navigate. I designed interactions for aggregating content on the home screen as well as the reading experience including bookmarking and highlighting content. I also led a team to develop a very robust prototype to demonstrate how the touch interactions were going to work on a tablet.
The reading experience was the core function of the device, but our goal was to have a fully interactive reading experience that allowed users to easily navigate through the book as well as to intuitively bookmark, highlight, note, and share parts of the book for easy reference.