Bjango’s iPhone copy & paste solution

Posted by Matt

October 10, 2008

The good chaps of Bjango made the above concept video for iPhone copy and paste. I think it’s the best implementation I’ve seen so far.

Their post goes into full detail of how this could work.

Copy and paste workflow

Tap-and-drag to the start of the selection, keep holding

While holding the first finger down, tap anywhere on the screen with a second finger

Drag to the end of the selection with the first finger

Word and line selections
If we’re using a second finger tap to signify “I want to make a selection and copy”, why not use a double tap for word-constrained and triple tap for line-constrained selections, just like a computer?

Nice work Bjango.