After carrying the tablet around for the better part of a day, I finally set it down next to my Moleskine notepad and noticed something interesting. The dimensions of the Moleskine were exactly the same as the faux 10.1″ diagonal display on my prototype. Of course! The Moleskine felt natural in my hand. The weight, the thickness and the dimensions were just right.
What a great exercise. In a lot of ways I feel like I learned more about the mythical tablet by reading this post than I did reading a handful of rumor articles. Excellent, detailed account of process and design reasoning too.