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I agree, it's shameful that there's been so little innovation from the big players to move beyond QWERTY. I was thinking recently about the possibility of two
by lukifer 14y ago
I agree, it's shameful that there's been so little innovation from the big players to move beyond QWERTY.
I was thinking recently about the possibility of two radial dials for the thumbs. Start the dial wherever touched, spin around to the desired letter. Possibly double the range by using two layers: pull back to center for one letter, flick outward for another. Eventually, muscle memory would make the whole thing flow. Doesn't solve the one-handed use case, though.
Admittedly, it's a tough nut to crack. Ubiquitous voice recognition helps, but we may not have a real breakthrough to text input until neural interfaces. I feel like Minuum is at least a good start.
- prawks 14y agoHow about one large dial with letters around it, press & hold, then swipe from one letter to the center to another. Tap the middle to change charsets. The thing is all about muscle memory. I can type much faster than the guy in the video on my touchscreen QWERTY, because I do it so often. The same would go for these radial ideas. But how fast would you really start out at on either?
- lucian1900 14y agoNo one would use a non-QWERTY keyboard. It's bad because it's not familiar, but also because when it fails, the fallback sucks. With Swype (or the Android swipy thing), both are non-issues. It's easy to get started and the fallback is your regular QWERTY. It's also quite fast.