Questions tagged [keyboard]
physical interface for entering text character by character.
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Is there any UX study that explains and (dis?)proves the benefits of the Touch Bar on new MacBook Pros?
I am a programmer, UX designer, and love the semi-structured approach the touch bar has offered to user interfaces, especially when contrasted to the "anything goes, your finger is a mouse" design ...
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Support of keyboard in application designed primarily for tablets
I design application for Windows tablet (touch interactions). The application can be also installed on a desktop or laptop.
I need to decide if we should support keyboard as input. The flow in the ...
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Is it ok to replace Trash button with Done button during editing? (iOS)
This image explains UX of my app:
There is a view where the user can type a text. User can delete a note with "Trash" button. When user touches the view application switches into the ...
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Why do we have both backspace and delete keys on most keyboards?
I wonder why both backspace and delete keys exist on so many keyboards. For example, the commonly used 104-key PC US English QWERTY keyboard:
Personally I prefer backspace, and would only use delete ...
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Is there any research that shows most common punctuation usage for numbers?
Context: I've got an iOS keyboard app that's a numpad. We recently, after a lot of user feedback, added four additional keys: period, comma, space, and return. The day we released that feedback ...
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What are the most common special characters used in email addresses?
I'm working on an onscreen keyboard for a kiosk-type application where the user can type in their email address using that keyboard.
We will have a 'more symbols' type button to toggle the keyboard ...
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Best practices for keyboard navigation for web based data grids
Can some one please tell me Keyboard navigation of Web based Grids?
My aim is to know how to work with Keyboard while working on any web based grid control.
For example:
Tabing, up and down arrow ...
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Converting DOS application to Web
I'm about to undertake the rewriting of a DOS-based application for a client. The client is interested in using the latest web application technologies, and I'm mulling over the UX.
Obviously, this ...
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Affordance to encourage tablet user to touch textbox (to get onscreen keyboard) on touchscreen?
We have a web app for brain injured stroke survivors to teach them typing.
We are able (with some effort :) make the onscreen keyboard appear. But sometimes it goes away when they touch the Enter ...
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the top and bottom bars on mobile applications versus the virtual keyboard
In my application I use the top bar for the main navigation and the bottom bar for shortcuts. This approach serves me well on most cases and the css code to anchor top and bottom bars is quite simple.
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Why does the Android Keyboard move words around?
Typing text messages on my Android phone is aided a lot by the 3 word suggestions that appear at the top. But it is extremely annoying that as I recognize one that I want and simultaneously finish ...
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Navigate web menus with keyboard on small screen?
I'm tasked with finding accessibility concerns on a webpage. The site has a main menu at the top of the page:
When the user's screen is wide, all top level menu items are shown in
a single row. When ...
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Undesired change of application focus by the OS
Some desktop Operating System (OS) do spontaneously switch focus among applications without the user being aware of it. A typical issue is when you are typing in text editor and suddenly another app ...
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Free object movement keyboard shortcut [closed]
In many graphic and writing tools there snapping grids and other constraints which block the user to move graphic objects to unwanted positions or to help aligning objects to other objects.
In Linux (...
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Why does the numpad have arrows?
Simple question, as stated in the title.
What is the reasoning behind the arrows on the numpad of my keyboard?
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Keyboard shortcut keys for Tabs?
In the below web UI if I interact via keyboard keys, which are the right keys used for tabs(General/Firewall/Privacy) navigation?
a) Tab key
b) Left,Right arrow keys
c) Left, Right, Top & ...
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Why are there no arrow keys on most mobile on-screen keyboards?
When typing on smartphones or tablets it is very cumbersome to move the cursor to a different position. Why is it that the onscreen keyboards on these devices usually don't have left/right arrow ...
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Do any wireframing tools support keyboard control for accessibility testing?
I have some keyboard interactions that I want to test, namely the use of a new sortable card component that I want to make keyboard accessible. The problem is that I use Balsamiq and there is no way ...
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Keyboard layout for (learning to / switching) hands
I would like to know, if keyboards had songs for flipping the keyboard along the vertical axis of the phone's display, than would that happen someone who wanted to learn how to key in or swipe keys ...
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Mobile: Apply text field focus with keyboard or not?
I'm interested in the drawbacks when applying auto focus with keyboard on text fields.
I'm redesigning an application where the user have to enter PIN etc. Normally the user have to enter maximum ...
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Should my custom keyboard's "delete all" button have an image? [duplicate]
I am making a custom iOS keyboard. Here is the current design:
The "delete all text" button (the one with the x that is surrounded by a square) is currently the only key on the keyboard that has an ...
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Alternative for the escape key [numpad]?
NOTE: This is NOT a duplicate of Is there a logical alternative for the Escape key? as this is for the numpad.
I am designing a web app which should look like a real app on mobile. To clear a field, ...
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Universal or standard pattern of keyboard layout design
One of the arguments for having different keyboard layout designs is that they are tailored for different devices and their usage. So for example, a physical keyboard layout is often similar on a ...
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Why are keyboard numpads on the right-hand side?
All standard computer keyboards have numpad (numeric keypad) on the right-hand side. Why is it so?
I have recently switched to a laptop without a numpad. This lets me have the mouse in a much more ...
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Why do most smartphones not have a physical keyboard?
The vast majority of smartphones sold today use a 'bar' or 'slate' form-factor, with a large screen which uses an on-screen keyboard.
Blackberry are the one obvious manufacturer who still produce ...
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Should I code my own numeric keyboard? It's bad UX? [closed]
I'm building my first app in Html/Css/Js and I need the numeric keyboard in one screen. I have some apparently solvable problems with the standard keyboard, mostly because I don't like the aesthetic, ...
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Comprehensive sketch file for Material Design Keyboards?
I have searched high and low and cannot find a comprehensive .sketch file (or any typeof file) containing all english language android keyboards with all possible states for a variety of device ...
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What would be a better typing experience in landscape mode of a keyboard?
While designing a keyboard app for android, I went through a lot of testing of various existing keyboards. One thing found in common was that typing in landscape mode of every keyboard wasn't very ...
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What is the difference between PHONE NUMBER & NUMERIC TEXT inputtype in android text fields?
I'm designing a keyboard application for android. Came across the various input types such as - phone number, email, url, etc. for which the keyboard should ideally change layout for the user.
I ...
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Why warn about caps lock for passwords, instead of ignoring caps lock for password characters?
Many login screens warn the user if the caps lock key is switched on. Most prominently the windows login screen.
Does this offer any advantage compared to simply ignoring the caps lock key and ...
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Why are the keys on a keyboard square?
Some of the keys on a keyboard are rectangular in shape, and the Enter key is often a strange shape, but the majority of keys are square. But there could be other possible shapes for those keys.
For ...
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Is speech recognition faster than keyboard for data entry
Are there any serious studies looking at why we still use/need a keyboard if speech recognition technology makers (like Nuance's Better Day and Dragon) claim they do more words per minute?
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Why Ctrl + C for copy but not Ctrl + P for paste?
Why was the Ctrl + C key sequence selected for copying text, however Ctrl + P was not selected for paste in Windows?
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Why aren't keyboards' home and top rows aligned nicely?
If you're like most people, your keyboard looks something like this:
The keen eye will notice that all but one set of adjacent rows on a regular keyboard are aligned at half-key increments: the top ...
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Best practice for scrolling page with onscreen keyboard
Should you be able to scroll a page freely and be able to view all content with the onscreen keyboard visible?
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You're using a touch device with a scrollable page.
You initiate the ...
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Usability problem on Mac due to absence of keyboard symbols [closed]
I have a friend who recently migrated from Windows to OS X. He's heavy keyboard user but is having a tough time on Mac. That's primarily because many important keys have no keyboard symbols on them. ...
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Wake Up key on keyboard
Noticed this keyboard that has a "Wake Up" key next to the "Sleep" key.
What is the use of this key?
Most keyboards I know that have a Sleep key don't have a Wake Up key; to raise a computer from ...
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Is it good to put search box above the keyboard?
Here's the case, I'm designing for a text editor on iphone, user wants to search keyword in the article the just wrote. We don't have the suggest results (things pop out when you're searching in yelp),...
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Controlling movement direction in isometric view
In an isometric view, floor tiles would be aligned diagonally.
On this view, an entity can be moved to adjacent tiles, as illustrated by the green arrows.
Since the movement is diagonal (to the ...
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Keyboard navigation through form with multiple tabs
To avoid any confusion, I am not talking about the tab key, I am talking about a form with tabs at the top that can be selected by clicking the tab or by pressing Ctrl+PageUp/Down. The latter is not ...
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Why is there no standard layout for computer keyboards?
As you might be aware, there is no context menu button (similar to right click action) in modern keyboards. In latest laptops such as HP, Lenovo, etc. and Lenovo slim keyboard are missing the Context ...
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Are screenreader users aware of the keyboard controls with jQuery UI's datepicker?
jQuery UI's datepicker has complex keyboard navigation.
Source: https://api.jqueryui.com/datepicker/
While the datepicker is open, the following key commands are
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PAGE UP: Move ...
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iOS Black keyboard
Is the black iOS keyboard used to indicate that the form is secure?
There seems to be suggestions that it is the case but I can not find a clear answer within any guidelines and have seen the black ...
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How to get users to tab through forms instead of mouse-picking?
Is there a way to teach, persuade or force users to learn to use the Tab and Enter keys to navigate simple forms, instead of clicking the next field with the mouse? This is such a productivity-killer ...
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How would replacing the spacebar with a track pad affect user experience upon typing?
Google have issued a patent aiming to replace the spacebar with a track pad sliding in its place. This would make room for smaller keyboards and smaller devices, but what does it do to user experience....
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What's the rationale for having the keyboard vibration feature on mobile phones?
A lot of people prefer physical keyboards than virtual ones on cell phones. In order to mimic physical keyboards experience, most cell phones have the vibration feature(i.e., the phone vibrates when ...
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Best way to display 3 different keyboards in a single flow even if the input is variable in each screen?
I'm gathering feedback on the best way to show a keyboard on screen that will provide different keys depending on the input needed.
The user will have to input 3 different values in three different ...
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Keyboard Dismissal On Non-Interaction of Input Field
We're having a debate at the office. One of my developers is adamant in having the keyboard dismiss when there is any interaction with anything on screen that is not an input field. In other words ...
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Touch versus trace typing
Do you think trace typing (as provided by apps like Swype and SwiftKey, and now integrated in many smartphones UI) can replace touch typing? Any data on typing speed with this new input method?
I was ...
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Can the "Go"button on mobile devices' virtual keyboards replace an actual button on the interface?
Imagine I'm designing as search bar for mobile websites and don't want to waste the space on a "Go" or "Search" button on my interface, can I just expect the user to tap on the "Go" button on his ...
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