Most modern keyboards are QWERTY. The QWERTY layout has no regularity in the arrangement of letters, and there was some backlash when this layout first came out. Designer Martin Vyčari explains the ...

Apple has just released an update for iOS 8, the operating system that runs on iPhones and iPads, and they’re supporting 3rd party keyboards for the first time in iOS history. Perhaps that’s partly ...

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. "The typewriter keyboard for me is the one that is most amazing," said ...

"Fingers on the home row!" Those words were drilled into us every single day in basic keyboarding class in high school. What is the "home row," you may wonder? Well, knowing the "home row" is the ...

To make an effective switch, one has to override muscle memory for using QWERTY layout for a long while. I started on my grandfather's "Underwood" typewriter when I was 7 and if I were to explore ...

Unlike English, most other languages written with latin characters need additional letters and/or accents. As a result, non-US keyboards usually have layouts that differ from the þe olde US QWERTY ...

Alternative keyboards have been around for a long time, and while the traditional QWERTY keyboard won the fight, that doesn't mean the other layouts aren't worth considering. Advocates for alternative ...

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Following its introduction in 1873, QWERTY became the most popular keyboard layout. While it was designed to prevent typewriter typebars from jamming, its longevity beyond the ...

The touchscreen text input space could be heading for some serious disruption. If Apple drops its API guard a little more to allow developers to create system global keyboards that could open the ...

Fact of the day: the QWERTY keyboard is bad. It does not provide the best way to type. We've known this for a while, and yet we're still using it; the QWERTY keyboard, developed in 1868, has somehow ...

French and English share the same 26-character alphabet, but additional accents, symbols, and punctuation make it challenging for Francophones to use keyboard layouts designed for English speakers.

You use it every day without a second thought, but if you think about it for just a second, QWERTY is really, really weird. Where did something so strangely unintuitive come from? The popular story is ...