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HERO: Rethinking the Smartphone Keyboard
Wanted to share a keyboard that I designed for low-vision and blind users.
An interesting idea, but charging money for something like this seems a bit silly.
I still don't think that this is an advancement in touchscreen typing. I think that the best keyboard used is the 8pen. It uses the strengths of the touchscreen sliding possibility and can be used with one hand. Who didn't have to learn using the QWERTY keyboard. I don't understand why people don't want to learn a new way of typing if that means typing better on the touchscreen.
With this keyboard we haven't moved away from the format of the typewriter. We are still thinking of the keys as being laid out in a flat fashion, as in the typewriter. Where have we innovated. As far as the 8pen is concerned, the flawless motion of sliding the finger on the screen is used to produce words.
I still think that the 8pen is the best innovation of writing on a touchscreen.
An interesting idea and the keyboard problem is quite real. But after playing with it a few times, it's clear that very few people will spend enough time with this to become better at it than they are with QWERTY on mobile.
Looks a lot like 8pen: http://www.8pen.com/
And why didn't they call it the TINA keyboard ;)
This is a third party keyboard I would actually download. Whenever I upgrade..
look cool