Most modern keyboards are QWERTY. The QWERTY layout has no regularity in the arrangement of letters, and there was some backlash when this layout first came out. Designer Martin Vyčari explains the ...

The Wall Street Journal takes up the qwerty vs. Dvorak keyboard controversy this morning. The latest wrinkle: Dvorak fans want the configuration to be available on smart phones. Writes the Journal, ...

The iOS 16 has multiple support for various keyboard layouts including QWERTY, AZERTY, and QZERTY. However, many people do not know that the newest operating system also supports a very old layout on ...

Last month, NPR asked listeners and readers and a Harvard professor what technologies have stuck around a little too long. He's talking about the QWERTY layout — in use since the earliest typewriters.

Almost every computer keyboard in the English-speaking world uses the 19th-century QWERTY layout. You may not know that there’s an alternative: the Dvorak layout, which August Dvorak developed in 1936 ...

First things first. I do not want this to be a thread about whether the Dvorak keyboard is actually better than QWERTY. There is a TON of literature on the web from both sides. I've read a great deal ...

One of the strangest things about human nature is our tendency toward inertia. We take so much uncontrollable change in stride, but when our man-made constructs stop making sense, we’re suddenly stuck ...

As computers take over more and more of our lives, it behooves almost every one of us to be able to touch-type. It’s not essential to our existence, but it sure does make some tasks MUCH easier. Most ...

Trying to learn dvorak without correctly labeled keys is like trying to learn qwerty with blank keys. Sure you could do it, but it's really helpful for a beginner to be able to look down and hit the ...

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year was the showcase of all that's new and exciting in personal technology. Yet some of the new ideas seemed very familiar — none more so than the New ...