2011 / Interaction design / iOS

An e-book you could tear

A paper-inspired iPad reading interface, built in five days.

President’s Award · KAIST FDC

My role: Solo developer
When: 2011
Focus: Interaction design / iOS

An iPad e-book prototype with a paper page and sharing options. — 01Sharing an excerpt from the page.

A page being peeled diagonally in an iPad reading interface. — 02A paper-inspired interaction for tearing out an excerpt.

A virtual paper page curling in the iPad prototype. — 03Exploring the physical behavior of a page.

Original project images, preserved at their archival resolution.

Making digital pages feel physical

For KAIST’s Freshman Design Course, I explored an e-book interface in which a reader could tear out a piece of a page, share it, or keep it in an archive. The interaction borrowed from the behavior of paper.

Five days, one developer

I built the prototype myself in approximately five days, using UIView and the graphics filters available in iOS 4.

Recognition

The project received the President’s Award in the 2011 Freshman Design Course at KAIST.