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A Physical Shortcut Panel for Sketching with Procreate on an iPad
The standalone PenPad
Do you use Procreate on an iPad? If so a Netherlands-based company called Pen Tips, whose stock in trade is making silicone tips for Apple Pencils, sells this shortcut panel specifically for that set-up.
For those of you that find constantly tapping on the interface with the Pencil cumbersome, their USB-C-chargeable PenPad offers 23 different shortcuts that can be accessed with physical buttons.
"No cramps, an ergonomic experience," the company writes. "Optimized key spacing for speed, error, usability, and biomechanics for longer periods of time."
I suppose given time, one could memorize the location of all the buttons and get speedy with it—you ever see an accountant work an old-school calculator?—but I'd be curious to see a design with more differentiated and intuitive buttons.
The PenPad retails for $91.
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This is a fantastic use case for artists and designers because having a single button is simpler than hand contorting multi-key inputs, as well as getting the keyboard out of the way so a user can just have the display in front of them with high use hotkeys conveniently off to the side. The problem comes from these devices essentially being remapped external number keypads, the standard version of which can cost as little as $10, but because of the "custom" buttons (provided by a fifty cent PCB using probably open source software to remap them instead of the default numpad setup), they try and charge outrageous prices for them. A better option would be to buy a cheap external number pad, and remap the keys using any number of free software options. There are remappable external numpads, but again, the sellers of them charge exorbitant prices.