My favorite user experience/prototyping story comes from the development of the Palm Pilot. From Wikipedia: Before starting development of the Pilot, Hawkins s

My favorite user experience/prototyping story comes from the development of the Palm Pilot. From Wikipedia: Before starting development of the Pilot, Hawkins said he carried a block of wood, the size of the potential Pilot, in his pocket for a week. I used and programmed for a IIIx. It was snappy, had a full productivity suite built-in, and there was some sort of Instapaper-like app that would bundle web pages and sync them onto the Palm. It was revolutionary for bathroom reading. ;-) I still carry my old Tungsten T when I'm in Japan, since the JEDict (dictionary/character lookup) implementation is way better than on any other device I've tried.