CHICAGO – Japan invented the creative user interface way before it was cool. Way before computers even existed.
Take the drop-down box, for example. All that information tucked away under a simple click. Japan has a more manual version that hides away in all of its 文芸誌 (bungei-shi, literary magazines), and it’s called the 目次 (mokuji, index).
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