UX Write: The 'write' tool for the job (Update)

January 02, 2014 by David Johnson

Are you an iPad writer? Do you have a bluetooth keyboard case? Do you think of your iPad as a notebook replacement, the netbook Apple never made? Are your text messages measured in paragraphs rather than characters? Somewhere on your iPad, do you have the beginnings of a draft of that novel you always dreamed of writing? If any of this sounds reasonable and not completely daft, then you are an iPad writer, and you need a writer's tool. Allow me to tell you about the one I've been using lately:

I predict…

December 28, 2013 by David Johnson

Having just listened to the TNT prediction show for 2014, I thought I would go ahead and write down a few of my own predictions for the coming year. If my predictions prove to be true, you can bet there will be a follow-up. If not, well…

iPad Air: Typing on glass

November 03, 2013 by David Johnson

When the iPad first hit the scene, I decided to give it a try as a writing machine. I developed a small amount of competence at it, but it would never replace a keyboard for me. When third party keyboards started arriving, I jumped at the chance, and never looked back. I still practiced on glass on and off. But I never found it comparable. The iPad Air is starting to make me rethink my aversion to typing on glass.