Why are keyboard shortcuts good? Well, they speed things up a lot. Plus, we can program keyboard shortcuts for things we do very often. On macOS and Windows, we can easily see what the keyboard shortcuts are because they’re listed in the menus or the tooltips. None of the iPad apps have discoverable keyboard shortcuts and I haven’t seen one app with customizable keyboard shortcuts. Photoshop for iPad only has a small list of them. Graphics programs on iPad tend to have very weak keyboard shortcut support. Do you think that UI would be the same as the touch UI in Illustrator on iPad? Well, it isn’t. What’s more… Illustrator on Windows has a “Touch” workspace that enables a nice touch & pen-friendly user interface.
Illustrator Draw and Illustrator on iPad however, are completely different. I can switch between macOS and Windows all day and the Illustrator user interface has been the same between the two platforms for 24 years.
That being said, Illustrator’s interface on macOS and Windows has remained very consistent since Illustrator 7.0 in 1997. Illustrator Draw also depends on non-discoverable gestures, which are known to require more cognitive energy to memorize versus a more-obvious user interface design which requires less cognitive energy. Why should I invest in learning iPad apps when their capabilities don’t come close to desktop apps? It’s completely different and most of the features I rely on are completely absent. Why do we need two again? I’ve been using Illustrator for decades, and the iPad versions are nothing like what I’m used to. Illustrator Draw on iPad is nothing like Illustrator on Windows & macOS and neither is the other Illustrator app called Illustrator for iPad. Goofy foreign UI designs relative to what I’m used to
And it’s the same interface as on my desktop workstations!ĥ. With the Wacom MobileStudio Pro that I usually bring on remote shoots, I can open Adobe Bridge, point it to the SD card slot, and start culling & editing right away. The most annoying one is that you have to “import” the entire library before you can start doing anything. Adobe Lightroom on the iPad is actually pretty good, except it still has limitations. Maybe my client wants to post articles during a conference right after a session ends, or maybe we want to do some culling right away. Often I might be on location and need to do some photo editing right there during the shoot. Websites and printed products rely on photography. I may need to set up still life photos of food products in a shooting tent, or any kind of package products, or I may photograph events, or building interiors/exteriors for signage mockups, or people interacting with each other, or people headshots, or emergency response set-ups for the American Red Cross during the aftermath of 9/11. As a graphic designer, I do a lot of photography too.
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