2 posts and columns on Richard Kasperowski

Smart Phone Keyboards Seem Dumb to People of Their Type

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

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.