Wait…what?

It’s been two months since I got the iPad and I am impressed with how much it has crept into my work routine. It’s use as a consumption product was immediately apparent but I really didn’t think it would be useful for actual work. I don’t mean for email and IM’s, which I do use it for, but actual design work. I find I am using it for mapping, concept and wire framing almost exclusively. I find it easier to work through ideas on it without the constraint of sitting at a machine. Even a laptop. It’s also very easy to take to a meeting and show notes, mind maps or wireframes to a client or coworker. For maps I like iThoughtsHD best. I use mindnode and Poppler as well but I find iThoughts to be the most useful. Wireframing, a concept I have struggled with and gone through many different programs, I am using iMockups. I love this thing. Very easy to use quickly and export when needed. For notes I have used just about everything available on the iPad. Nothing beats Evernote for me. It’s easy to use, as detailed as I need it to be and syncs with every other device I use. Evernote is a fantastic tool that you really need to be using. Things on the iPad is also an indispensable tool these days along with the laptop version.
So, while the iPad has not been used at all for development on the front end of building websites, – planning, brainstorming and wireframing – it has become another important tool, hand-in-hand with the MacBook Pro.

So, do you have an iPad? If so are you using it in your work? If so, what are you using?

/jM

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