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PaperclipPerfector  3mo ago (text post)   3001 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for January 10, 2025

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Consistent, static user interfaces are so last year. Modern UX design is all about placing the most-used options in the most-accessible places so that new users can find them as quickly as possible.

With that in mind, I'd like to recommend a plugin to anyone who likes creating dynamic user interfaces in that style: Markov Keyboard is a revolution in UI design, placing your most-used letters in the most-accessible locations on your keyboard. Instead of just doing this once (as in a Dvorak layout) it remaps the keys after each keystroke, maximizing the benefit.

(ask me about my latest experiences with Windows 11. Or don't. I'm sure you can guess.)

Does this mean I can type my most common sentences by pressing the same key over and over again?

I remember there being an accessibility interface that worked this way. There was an endless tree of letters that you moved through at mouse-controlled speed and each node was sized to reflect its Markov frequency, so after "Hell" you could select a massive "o" at full speed, but "a", "e", "f", "i", "u" and various punctuation were also quickly accessible.

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