Handling, thiness, tactility and even the sound of pen on paper was essential for the close connection between artist and artwork. In order for technology to replace pen and paper, the Intuos 4 needed to be more craft and computing. To achieve this, the Intuos 4 needed a dead simple learning curve and interaction elements that were here when you needed it and gone when you don’t. Even users familiar with the previous intuos mouse – often lamented as unwieldy and unused, finally praised it as a worthy tool to the intuos tablet.
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