Just as Dvorak was a response to QWERTY’s shortcomings, Colemak addresses the failures of Dvorak but does so in a way that doesn’t alienate current QWERTY users. In 2006, a programmer named Shai Coleman released an alternative keyboard layout called Colemak. To make the change over to computers less of a hassle and to reduce the learning curve, the keyboard design was not changed. But the QWERTY keyboard remained as Computers manufactures wanted the typist to engage with the computers. With the introduction of the personal computer in 1970’s, there was another opportunity to change from the standard QWERTY keyboard layout. Hence the uptake on this new design was poor with typist preferring to stick with QWERTY keyboard for typing. The change was too big and relearning of this new keyboard layout would have taken people a month to get familiar with the Dvorak keyboard. Here’s the Dvorak keyboard:ĭesign criteria sound good, so what’s wrong with this keyboard? Almost all letters move from their familiar QWERTY locations. In 1936, August Dvorak patented a new layout to reduce finger reach and strain by putting common letters on the home row and to avoid awkward use of key pairs to improve speed. The “improved” QWERTY layout was designed to slow down typing and prevent typewriter keys from jamming anymore by slowing down the typist.Įlectric typewriters solve the problem of the keys jamming and new keyboards layouts were introduced.
In the late 1870’s, instead of solving the problem of why the typewriter was jamming, Remington redesigns the keyboard layout so as to slow down the typist by introducing the QWERTY keyboard. Typists soon mastered the skill to typing that they were going so fast that were jamming the typewriter keys which flew up to hit the typewriter ribbon. In 1872, Remington Company produced the first mechanical typewriter, patented by Latham Sholes. Do you know why QWERTY keyboard has survived so long? We outline the history of keyboard layout to you.
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