The funny thing? You probably used an index keyboard at some point. Maybe inputting a password on Apple TV (which alternated between linear and 2D indexing).pic.twitter.com/Qr0xqIUmHm
Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him
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The funny thing? You probably used an index keyboard at some point. Maybe inputting a password on Apple TV (which alternated between linear and 2D indexing).pic.twitter.com/Qr0xqIUmHm
Maybe entering a high score on an arcade game using a joystick.pic.twitter.com/lf1XbY9m3T
Maybe labelling stuff in your workshop.pic.twitter.com/j2jH1NUBuZ
Index keyboards are a great example of an alternative idea that’s easy to ridicule, but the moment you step outside the mainstream, its deficiencies can become its powers.
Japanese and Chinese typewriters? Needing to access thousands of characters before software meant traditional keyboard was impossible… but an index typewriter could work.pic.twitter.com/kAMfApJpOq
Stephen Hawking used a version of an index keyboard to talk. The very same simplicity and inefficiency that would bother many typists was actually a great benefit here, a cheek twitch being his sole input method.pic.twitter.com/oqrpheBlwq
You might also remember a lo-tech version of this idea from Breaking Bad. (“A page a day” is better than nothing.)pic.twitter.com/hqqfkH52Dq
Have a limited room on your 1980s wrist? Put a tiny index typewriter in your phone.pic.twitter.com/HyO8p6uOn9
Yeah, I regret saying that. It’s just because I know a few *really* knowledgeable historical typewriter experts – and in comparison this feels so above my pay grade.
Should I delete the thread and start from scratch? That’d be an interesting parallel to typewriting, actually. :·)
Haha, the thread is so interesting! Never thought it would end up at interface input mechanisms through remotes.
Posit: A designer working on such a remote who’d study index typewriters for even an hour would do a better job than one who wouldn’t.
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