In 1936, August Dvorak, a professor of education at the University of Washington, patented an alternative to the QWERTY keyboard. The QWERTY keyboard, the standard keyboard used all over the world ...

iOS 16 adds native support for the Dvorak keyboard layout on the iPhone, providing users with an alternative to the standard QWERTY layout. Dvorak was designed to make two-handed typing faster and ...

Although I’ve gone on the record as being a proud Dvorak user for over a decade, when it comes to touchscreen keyboards I’ve always been happy with QWERTY. The main benefit of Dvorak is the ...

Tired of QWERTY? Starting with iOS 16—which launched last month—the Apple iPhone now supports the 86-year-old Dvorak keyboard layout natively. Previously, Dvorak typing aficionados needed to ...

So why didn't we all switch to Dvorak? The problem lay in co-ordinating the switch. Qwerty had been the universal layout since before Dvorak was born. Most typists trained on it. Any employer ...

The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, developed by Anton Dvorak in 1936, serves as the major alternative to QWERTY. One of the biggest drawbacks of the QWERTY keyboard is the infrequency with which the ...

It can never hurt to go faster. For that reason, the idea of trying to adapt to Dvorak, a keyboard layout that never reached the popularity of QWERTY, has long interested me. The supposed merits ...

The inventor felt, when he patented his design in 1936, that QWERTY was uneconomical and uncomfortable—and therefore wasn’t the perfect layout. Dvorak believed that his layout was more ...

cousin of the Czech composer Antonin Dvorak, was a professor of education in 1932 when he introduced his alternative to QWERTY. In 1914, Dvorak had been inspired by the work of Frank and Lillian ...

August Dvorak (1894-1975) dedicated his life to destroying the keyboard that you are almost certainly using right now. He hated the design that put the letters “QWERTY” in the upper left ...