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Input speed

Input speed

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Input speed

- The timings we discussed in the last video are all related to output, how long it takes your interface to respond to something the user does. Now let's look at the other side of interaction speed, which is input. This is basically a discussion of keyboard versus mouse versus touchscreen. Each type of input device has its positive and its negative aspects. Let's take each in turn. Keyboards, both physical ones and on-screen ones, are probably not going away anytime soon. Voice recognition's getting pretty good, but we don't just use keyboards for entering prose text, we also use them for entering commands and for navigation. The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed back in the early days of manual typewriters, specifically to slow typists down and make sure the little hammers that pressed through the ink ribbon onto the paper didn't get jammed together. That's not exactly an ideal setup for the digital age, but despite a couple of variations in keyboard layout, the QWERTY keyboard has…

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