Comments on: RETYPE the text in your iPhone http://www.mintusability.com/2008/11/29/retype-the-text-in-your-iphone/ User interface rambles, projects and random thoughts. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:13:34 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Konrad Baumann http://www.mintusability.com/2008/11/29/retype-the-text-in-your-iphone/comment-page-1/#comment-175 Konrad Baumann Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:54:31 +0000 http://www.mintusability.com/?p=323#comment-175 This is an interesting concept. I will try it out on my iPhone. Btw, I designed a language-specific keyboard layout concept for small devices back in 1994. It is published in my master thesis (1995) as well as in my books Baumann+Lanz (1998) and Baumann+Thomas (2003) about UI design of electronic appliances. The keyboard layout uses a portrait format 5x6 matrix and has the most frequently used key - the space key - in the centre. It was intended as an alternative to alphabetically aligned keyboards as used e.g. in logistics handling appliances at that time. The problem with these keyboards was originally described by Donald Norman (1988, 1989) in his very inspiring book: The design of everyday things. Feel free to ask me for more details: konrad.baumann(at)fh-joanneum.at This is an interesting concept. I will try it out on my iPhone.

Btw, I designed a language-specific keyboard layout concept for small devices back in 1994. It is published in my master thesis (1995) as well as in my books Baumann+Lanz (1998) and Baumann+Thomas (2003) about UI design of electronic appliances.

The keyboard layout uses a portrait format 5×6 matrix and has the most frequently used key – the space key – in the centre. It was intended as an alternative to alphabetically aligned keyboards as used e.g. in logistics handling appliances at that time. The problem with these keyboards was originally described by Donald Norman (1988, 1989) in his very inspiring book: The design of everyday things.

Feel free to ask me for more details: konrad.baumann(at)fh-joanneum.at

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