ARTICLE NO. 450    December 15, 2009

Swype for Android: New touchscreen text input method

by Jonathan Anderson

Check out MobileCruch's article about Swype, an interesting touch text input method for Android, or just jump to their YouTube video demo of it.

Finally, that thin layer of skin oil that's always streaking up your touchscreen device has been transformed from an annoyance into a feature: typing glide lubrication.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR(S)

Jonathan is a tech-focused jack of all trades and the managing editor of UX Magazine. He is also the author of the recent book Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software, published by O'Reilly Media. From 2005 to 2009, Jonathan helped found EffectiveUI, a leading UX strategy, design, and development agency focused on rich Internet, desktop, and mobile systems.

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