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I am using the duckyPad, text file configuration on an SD card, no need for complex software. Works on any OS that supports USB HID devices. https://www.tindie.com/products/dekuNukem/duckypad-do-it-all...
Eveyr command was basically on the tablet, and in the center was the screen area...
There was a printed menu-matrix configured for autocad...
It made drawing so fast (I finished second in the National CAD Olympics in ~1993 and finished a 3 hour test in in 30 minutes.)
For years this device made me extremely fast on CAD.
The muscle memory for the location of certain items, coupled with the custom keyboard shortcuts for all other autocad commands could be done with being mostly mapped to keys close to the left hand placement...
I miss those tablets. I should get another one.
The point is that if you can know what core functions you want on the extra input real-estate... you can make your workflow very streamlined.
When I looked at this, I thought, I am typing blind, how would I use this? Are you looking down on your controller or somehow manage to use it blind?
Allows me to not be the DJ/arbiter of music for my toddlers, yet still provides them with control over the music (Sonos) and helps them learn to negotiate & take turns between themselves. The Stream Deck has, thus far, held up to quite a lot of abuse. I've added some lighting control and they have play/pause/next control, too -- works great. The USB 'server' software is fantastic, too. =D
This could have been the touch bar (on macs) if people didn't reflexively poo-poo any change to their computers.
This could have been the touch bar (on macs) if people didn't reflexively poo-poo any change to their computers.
This could have been the touch bar (on macs) if people didn't reflexively poo-poo any change to their computers.
That feels a little disingenuous. People would have happily ignored the Touch Bar if it didn't remove the physical F row and escape key.
Apple turned it into a contest between an F row with physical keys, key travel, and feel and a touch-screen based key pad that required you to look away from the primary output device to even use. Then had it default to the positions of the dynamic buttons moving around as you switch applications (which is a UX fail).
Essentially Apple's own design trade-offs killed Touch Bar. There was nothing reflexive about it, people hated losing something they were actively using and getting something worse in exchange.