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Megan HolsteiniPhone App Design for Entrepreneurshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4285-8_8

8. Case Study: Scribe

Megan Holstein1 
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Dublin, OH, USA
 
Scribe is an app that solved one very small but very serious problem for some people—copying and pasting between their Macs and iOS devices.
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Scribe app 2016

This was more of a design challenge than it seems. The team at Hipolabs, the firm that created Scribe, had to find a way to get data from the iPhone onto the Scribe app easily (and get around all of Apple’s design constraints) and then get that data to the Mac, and then to make it easy for the user to copy the data wherever ...

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