Comments on: iPhone keyboard study http://www.smallsurfaces.com/2007/08/iphone-keyboard-study/ mobile user interface design / user experience design / interaction design resources Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:53:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: WirelessDuniya » Blog Archive » Texting on iphone lacks efficiency http://www.smallsurfaces.com/2007/08/iphone-keyboard-study/comment-page-1/#comment-5308 WirelessDuniya » Blog Archive » Texting on iphone lacks efficiency Sun, 19 Aug 2007 07:32:09 +0000 http://www.smallsurfaces.com/2007/08/iphone-keyboard-study/#comment-5308 [...] Source: SmallSurfaces [...] [...] Source: SmallSurfaces [...]

]]> By: Chad http://www.smallsurfaces.com/2007/08/iphone-keyboard-study/comment-page-1/#comment-5306 Chad Fri, 17 Aug 2007 01:48:37 +0000 http://www.smallsurfaces.com/2007/08/iphone-keyboard-study/#comment-5306 "Slightly unfortunately designed" is pretty generous. Without a balanced level of experience with the two types of input, we can't really draw any conclusions from the participants' responses. I'm not even sure what the study was trying to prove, except that the iPhone's interface isn't easier than something users are already skilled at using... ? That's not a reasonable expectation for any device. Intuitively I would expect the iPhone's text input to be more frustrating than a keyed input during the first few days, just from having played with it myself at the mac store. What would be interesting to me would be a comparison of users who are equally familiar with both types of devices. Personally I'm skeptical of the application of a touchscreen for text input, but I wouldn't claim to know anything about it based on this study. “Slightly unfortunately designed” is pretty generous. Without a balanced level of experience with the two types of input, we can’t really draw any conclusions from the participants’ responses. I’m not even sure what the study was trying to prove, except that the iPhone’s interface isn’t easier than something users are already skilled at using… ? That’s not a reasonable expectation for any device.

Intuitively I would expect the iPhone’s text input to be more frustrating than a keyed input during the first few days, just from having played with it myself at the mac store. What would be interesting to me would be a comparison of users who are equally familiar with both types of devices. Personally I’m skeptical of the application of a touchscreen for text input, but I wouldn’t claim to know anything about it based on this study.

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