Rectangular Display with Delayed/Highlighted Letters
This design will take a typical keyboard layout and either highlight the likely following characters as determined by an autocomplete form or fade them in based upon likelihood of being chosen.
For instance, if Billy is searching for “Pirate’s of the Caribbean” and has typed “Pir” into the search form, the next most likely letter will be “a” (the results from the autocomplete of “Pir” are shown below). Therefore, our keyboard will have the letter “a” highlighted with green.
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.
Efficiency:
- Pros
- The numbers are all together on one side, so typing in a long number is easy.
- Cons
- The space button is far from some letters, and the user still needs to move a large number of keys between the letter "a" and "u".
Safety:
- Pros
- A mistyped letter can be easily deleted by moving one back and changing it.
- Cons
- It might not be too difficult to watch someone type in a password and guess most of the letters.
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1. This will be the layout of the keyboard when Billy opens |
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2. Now, Billy will press the select button to choose the letter P. |
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3. Once Billy chooses “P” the letter P will appear in the text |
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4. Next Billy will move the cursor to “r” and select the next letter. |
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5. Once Billy chose “r”, the autocomplete form will appear with |
