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This keyboard takes the design of current keyboards and takes it one step further with the colors fading.  This will be visually helpful and will allow users to be able to locate next characters faster.

We will be experimenting with the number of colors highlighted.  The design below just shows one character highlighted, "a" shown as yellow.  We are considering highlighting up to three letters, with the most likely character having the strongest color, and the next ones being more pale.  However, the number of characters highlighted could be as low as one or possibly as high as five, although that seems like it will be too clutter some.

Learnability:
    - Pros
        - The user will easily recognize the rectangular grid layout from other keyboards, and since it is alphabetically ordered it will be easy for users to know where to look to find letters.
    - Cons
        - As it is a slight variation of other keyboards, users might get confused switching between applications that use other keyboards.

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1. This will be the layout of the keyboard when Billy opens
up the search. The top box will be where the words that Billy
types appear, and the current letter choice is highlighted by
a blue background. Since Billy wants to search for Pirates of
the Caribbean, he will use the direction pad to move the blue
highlighted box over to P.



2. Now, Billy will press the select button to choose the letter P.



3. Once Billy chooses “P” the letter P will appear in the text
box at the top, and the keyboard will switch to lower case
letters. Billy will now move the selection to “i” and choose
the next letter.



4. Next Billy will move the cursor to “r” and select the next letter.



5. Once Billy chose “r”, the autocomplete form will appear with
the top choices pulled from Netflix’s autocomplete menu. Also,
as is shown above, the letter “a” will be highlighted yellow because
it is the most likely letter to be chosen next after “Pir” is typed into
the search bar. Billy can move the blue box down to “Pirate’s of the
Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” and press select to choose it as the
movie to watch.

The procedure for selecting a movie is shown above.  Entering a username would be similar, except there will not be any letter prediction because usernames are generally randomly chosen words for uniqueness.  The process for selecting a password would be the same as for choosing a username, except the previously chosen letters would show up as asterisks for security reasons.

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