Symposia Notepad

The new note taking interface for Symposia. The challenge was that there was lack of clarity on what the purpose of the widget was; i.e. users weren't understanding you can take notes. It used to be just a plain text box.

By making it more skeuomorphic, comprehension with user testing sky rocketed. This is one of those times where skeuomorphism really does help.

It also ever-expands based on new lines. The sharing widget inside of it is pretty dynamic as well, and works much the same way you see on social networks (yammer, facebook, et al).