Kenny's Thoughts on User Experience Design » Video http://www.kennychen.net/blog Random Thoughts Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:05:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Swype is the new T9 http://www.kennychen.net/blog/2008/09/13/swype-is-the-new-t9/ http://www.kennychen.net/blog/2008/09/13/swype-is-the-new-t9/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:09:42 +0000 Kenny http://www.kennychen.net/blog/?p=111 One of the original inventors of T9 predictive text input for mobile phones, Cliff Kushler, has developed a new method for anything with a touchscreen by creating a swipe method where the user passes over each letter in the word and does not have to lift his fingers off the keyboard. The new method is aptly named Swype. I could see this being faster than T9, especially for larger touch screens but those with fat fingers and small touch screens will still have problems.

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To try an early prototype or read more about it, check out Mozilla Labs.

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Check out Aza’s blog post for a more detailed discussion.

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