It has carefully been designed to offer the optimal user experience and probably designed in Affinity Designer on the Mac. It’s not a quickly assembled adaptation of the Mac version, nor is it a sloppy collection of standard elements. The interface is typical of Affinity products. As with Affinity Photo for the iPad, the interface is gorgeous but invisible if you want it out of the way entirely. Even without a stylus that’s recognised, I could easily tell Affinity Designer is a joy to work with, even on an older iPad like mine. Still, those two design choices make a lot of sense for professional graphic and app UI designers, and those people are who the developers focus on. And so, they don’t offer any sort of control beyond a dumb stylus or your finger. It does, however, mean that other styluses like the Adonit Pixel that I used with my iPad Air 2 are not recognised. And that, in turn, is very important for a company who wants (and I might add: so far succeeds) to create the ultimate Adobe challenger software. That guarantees the best possible user experience, after all. That’s when you can use the Apple Pencil, and people who have it consistently report they’re over the moon with the Apple Pencil, so it’s understandable Affinity Designer has been optimised for it. Affinity Designer is best used with an iPad Pro. The developers have also rigorously opted to go for the newest of Apple’s iPads. No more procrastination and your full attention to the design you’re creating. That does mean you can throw your keyboard out of the window when working with Designer for the iPad. The design of there app to be completely controllable by pen, stylus and your fingers has been applied rigorously. On the iPad, keyboard shortcuts have been replaced by tapping shortcuts, with or without multiple fingers, but I have a keyboard connected to my iPad Air 2 and I was surprised to see that Designer didn’t recognise any of the keys I pressed. The app has the same powerful features as its Mac sibling, including the ability to use Designer for app interface design.
With Affinity Designer you come close to graphic design Nirwana if you have an iPad Pro and the Apple Pencil. It’s a well-designed port from Designer on the Mac in terms of power and capabilities, and of integration with the iOS environment. Affinity Designer for iPad is the much anticipated competitor of Adobe Illustrator on the iPad.
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