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I love it.

To paraphrase Alan Kay:

People who are really serious about software mockups should make their own hardware mockups.

Anybody watch Goldenboy?  This reminds me of when he learns c programming language on a computer made out of paper.

Eric: after reading your comment I start laughing so bad. I saw it long time, but that scene is unforgetable!!!

I can't wait to get all these omnigroup apps on my iPad… hopefully, there'll be a way to sync or transfer files between the mac and iPad versions.

I like OmniGraphSketcher, but one thing it is lacking is texture / image fills for the bar graphs.  I still can get some pretty sweet graphs made in Keynote / Numbers using these image fills.  Any chance of incorporating it? 

Big fan of most of your OG products, nonetheless.

My nine-year old son would love such work :) He has his own paper laptop and keeps “researching” the photo- and text-editing “patterns”. Talks and beeps on behalf on his notebook. Seems weird, but we're a software development family!

Just a comment really. Icons in the corners make sense with mouse controlled system because they inhabit areas which are easy to hit.

You can't go further up or right than the top right of the screen (for example) so you can just throw your mouse in that general direction and be sure to hit the button.

With a touch device, the corners are much harder to hit. There is the edge of the physical device to think about, the movement of the hand away from the workspace and the potential imbalance of holding a device with your left hand and pressing the top right hand corner.

Many of the ipad interfaces I've seen are mimicking mouse controlled interfaces which could be a missed opportunity.  Just something to bare in mind!

So someone other than my Mad Engineer husband does 3D printing? Cool!

[...] The Omni Mouth » Designing OmniGraphSketcher for the iPadIt'll be hard but if they can get the interaction right, Graffle on the iPad could be totally rad. [...]

[...] The Omni Mouth » Designing OmniGraphSketcher for the iPadIt'll be hard but if they can get the interaction right, Graffle on the iPad could be totally rad. [...]

the Ipad is the new gold rush

>Me: “Buhhhhh. Dur. I touch it?”
>Robin (soothingly): “Okay. You see a little blue circle around the element. Then what do you do?”
>Me: “Uhhhhhrrrr. I’d . . . maybe I’d press real hard. Like this.” *smoosh*
>Robin: “Um . . . well, okay. You get a dialogue that says ‘copy’.”

I love how this bit reads like a RPG session. The next bit could have been “I cast magic missile against the blue circle!”