To paraphrase an old school hip-hop track: "It's all about the haptic feedback, baby"
People are able to deal with the lack of tactile feedback on the iPhone keyboard because they compare the soft keyboard, clever workarounds and all, simply to other smartphone keyboards: they usually have their eyes on their phone while typing anyway. I'd hypothesize that for intensive typing on a QWERTY keyboard, your fingers need to know where they are, and that they've successfully typed each letter. So it is a challenge to replace the hardware QWERTY keyboard for this type of application. Then again, I was all about haptic feedback for the iPhone keyboard when it came out, too ... - N ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
