The streets of Manhattan form the most famous urban grid in the world — we type in grid -
shaped keyboard keys, we digest our digital media through tiny pixellated grids, and play the lottery filling numbers in small grids.
Not exact matches
This set of three drinking cups is
shaped like your favorite
keyboard keys: Control, Alt, and Delete!
The Touchfire instead is a flexible piece of transparent rubber that overlays the iPad's onscreen
keyboard — sporting
key -
shaped bumps to give you tactile feedback as you type.
Making the move to a freemium model means that you can grab the app at no charge, but additional content is available for purchase after the fact (currently this means additional themes to personalize the look of your
keyboard with various colours,
key shapes and trail colours: priced at $ 0.99 each, $ 2.99 for 5 or $ 4.99 for 10).
Why Designers Love The Ampersand: A Romance That Dates Back to Pompeii (John Brownlee for Fast Company): «Cheerily nuzzled above the «7»
key like a pear -
shaped pill bug, the ampersand is perhaps the most intriguing character on the
keyboard.»
This has now been replaced with the standard
keyboard though strangely, while the Kindle 2 itself acquired a rectangular
shape, the
shape of the
keys has been changed from rectangular pellets to small round ones.
Designed to take users away from the bulky QWERTY or older numeric multi-punch
keyboards that most mobile devices currently employ, SnapKeys relies instead on letter
shape recognition to type on one of four
keys.
The 3dRudder comes with its intuitive and simple software Dashboard that will let you
shape your own experience and choose between its various modes (
keyboard keys, mouse, 3 - or 4 - axes joystick...).
You could write a blog about
keyboard design, and if you were passionate about things like «clickiness» and
key shapes, you could probably make it work for years.
Next to the premium icon, you'll see a tiny little icon in the
shape of the WASD
keys on the
keyboard (a nod to the role those
keys play in so many PC games).
With its tactile, smile -
shaped keys and strong feedback, the ThinkPad T480's
keyboard offers a really good typing experience.
When activated, it places the
keyboard in an arc
shape — as seen in the screenshots above — so you can reach all
keys with just your thumb.
There's even a one - handed touch
keyboard and
shape writing so you can swipe over
keys to type (just like Windows Phone).
Using the
shape - writing function feels slow; the
shape writing line animation is often laggy, and the
keyboard is terrible at keeping up pace with
key - popups.