Dvorak

Trying New Ways of Typing

Andy Jordan, Editor and Producer, Tech Diary, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 26, 2009 at 7:53 am PT

The way we type is subject to the changing winds of technology, as well as safety concerns over issues like texting while driving. One of the big debates is about keyboard layouts, which includes the traditional Qwerty design and the user-friendly but obscure Dvorak.

Smart Phone Keyboards Seem Dumb to People of Their Type

Joseph De Avila, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 30, 2009 at 1:00 am PT

When the iPhone first came out, Richard Kasperowski wanted one. But there was a problem. The keypad on the phone’s touch screen uses the traditional keyboard configuration, called “qwerty.”

Smart-Phone Keyboards Seem Dumb to People of Their Type

Joseph De Avila, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on September 28, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT

When the iPhone first came out, Richard Kasperowski wanted one. But there was a problem. The keypad on the phone’s touch screen uses the traditional keyboard configuration, called “qwerty.” “I thought it would hurt my brain using a qwerty,” says the 39-year-old technology director in Cambridge, Mass. He wanted something different. He wanted a Dvorak.