Comments on: Touch Content Creation

By: Hamish

Hamish — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:27:09 +0000

Nice article, but I’d agree with the other commenters pointing out that your broomstick/doorbell analogy is not a good one. It’s much more like when you learn to drive and have to turn a wheel to go left or right. Eventually it becomes second nature and you can make reasonably precision movements at speed. But pressing a doorbell with a broomstick will always remain difficult to a level that using a mouse does not.

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By: Nate Smith

Nate Smith — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:50:13 +0000

I have been a huge proponent of the iPad as a content creator since it came out. I wrote this post about how to be a fully functioning blogger on the iPad. I think you’d enjoy it. I really enjoyed your post. I’ll be back for more!

http://dirtyrottenapples.tumblr.com/post/567390822/how-to-be-a-fully-functional-blogger-on-the-ipad

By: Stormchild

Stormchild — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:23:05 +0000

The ‘M’ in WIMP actually stands for “menus”. (“Mouse” and “pointer” is redundant.)

By: Rory

Rory — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:39:14 +0000

> To a novice user, aiming at something on screen with a mouse is like trying to ring a doorbell using a broomstick.

Only if you’re clicking on a 1-pixel-square element. A doorbell and broomstick end are the same size. However, clicking on a normal button is like poking one brick on a wall with a broomstick, a significantly easier task. Please don’t represent the difficulty of using a cursor with a false analogy – I think people would still understand that poking one brick on a wall with a broomstick is still a lot harder than putting your hand on that brick.

By: Steko

Steko — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:38:01 +0000

“A new interface for something so fundamental isn’t something you dream up without testing and I haven’t given it a huge amount of thought, but I do believe that a keyboard-less multitouch text navigation and manipulation UI might be a workable solution”

I think we’ll see the keyboard itself evolved into a much more touch friendly beast to where the lack of tactile feedback is a complete nonissue.

The touch interface is made for 2 thumbs or up to 8 fingertip so let’s imagine instead of typing on 32+ softkeys we will be mostly swyping in multiple directions from 8+ core multitouch points. A few secondary swype points could each activate a handful of numerals or punctuation marks. Wildcard slots could provide even more customizable access including most of the functionality we put into toolbars for the mouse/keyboard interface.

Working in science/math/music? Use one of the wildcard swype points to get all your special characters easily. Editing? Flowcharting? Formatting? There’s a swypebar for that.

By: Wonko the Sane

Wonko the Sane — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:00:07 +0000

“To a novice user, aiming at something on screen with a mouse is like trying to ring a doorbell using a broomstick.”

You gotta be shittin’ me.

By: Phil Aaronson

Phil Aaronson — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:08:33 +0000

There’s another, ancient alternative interface that might be useful for manipulating text: the stylus. Unfortunately, using a stylus seems to be the iPad’s equivalent of a two-button mouse?

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:55:55 +0000

I never understood why Apple didn’t enable the Magic Mouse for use with the iPad. It seems made for the iPad. Gestures would work nicely on its touch surface, and the iPad sorely needs some sort of mouse input when it’s used in the keyboard dock. It seems inefficient to have to lift your arm up from the keyboard to interact with the screen directly.