I have a colleague designer and UX researcher who uses her iPad Pro with the pencil to generate beautiful sketches and collections of materials and thoughts. Th

I have a colleague designer and UX researcher who uses her iPad Pro with the pencil to generate beautiful sketches and collections of materials and thoughts. They quickly become the centerpiece of our conversations because an iPad laying flat on the table is much less invasive than a screen with webpages, keyboard, presentations etc. My spouse on the other hand is a more traditional graphic and type designer. She uses a iPadPro/Pencil/MacMini combination to effortlessly go from simple sketches to illustrator sort of drawings. The quality and speed of her work just increased radically with that combination, and she’s not very technical. My dad, who is a very very old retired design professor has always accumulated incomprehensible piles of sketches on pieces of paper. He is one of those guys who was always an early adopter for styluses with PalmPilots and whatnot. But based on those experiences he was firmly against any sort of stylus. But when he saw how well this one works, his iPad basically replaced his computer and all those pieces of paper. He taught drawing for design classes for half his career and doesn’t stop talking about how great it is. I guess there is a common denominator here - it’s a really really sleek tool for anyone who uses the hand for drawing visual shapes. It’s especially attractive to the kinds of users that need focus on just one thing at a time. And it’s just a super friendly sort of device. Personally however, I can’t imagine not using my laptop for everything. I owned an iPad at one point but not drawing anything I don’t see the point.