Comments on: Which Keyboard Keys Would You Make Bigger?

By: Joshua Broad

Joshua Broad — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:30:11 +0000

As a owner of a brand new T400s, i must say the larger keys are definitely a welcome change, but i must say the matt finish to the trackpad is also a welcome improvement.

But your right around the Function key, although at least nothing happens when you press it by mistake.

By: adante

adante — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:29:23 +0000

Somewhat ironic that lenovo are cited here. These are one of the morons who decided to put the Fn key in the bottom left corner (replacing the traditional place for the Ctrl key), thereby completely disrupting established standards and breaking Fitt’s Law.

What is truly terrible is there is no fix for this and Lenovo – despite giving themselves self congratulatory pats on the back every few months in their Design Matters blog – are keeping completely silent on the issue.

By: Michael Pryor

Michael Pryor — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:25:29 +0000

WASD keys, for gaming leasuire!

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:59:56 +0000

I bought a Microsoft keyboard with half size across the top row ESC -> Pause/Break.

It’s so stupid… so much harder to smash the ESC key.

I would make all power/sleep keys a complete different texture / shape… I hate when they are in the place that “insert/home/page up” belongs because as a coder i find myself pressing sleep instead of home. it’s very annoying

By: Poker Rakeback

Poker Rakeback — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:35:55 +0000

HAHA, its a very interesting topic.
I hope my ENTER key bigger because I always press the wrong button.
And I hope the Num LK disappear. I hate that when I’m inputing a lot of number for my work, I press it but I dun knw it.

By: JessT

JessT — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 03:08:58 +0000

Instead of making the keys bigger, I’d be inclined to put the little notches on some that are on the home keys F and J.

Say, a notch on Esc so you know when your finger is centered on it, then depending on the layout of the keyboard, a notch in the middle of a group of related keys (so, if Del, Home, PgUp, PgDn, and Ins are in a group with Home in the center, put the notch on Home, so that you know how to get to the other keys from there) – exactly the same way you find the home keys on keyboards today.

By: B8Two

B8Two — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:57:30 +0000

but it is so useful when you want to SHOUT

By: the Odd one

the Odd one — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:24:36 +0000

I’d make the ‘Any’ key bigger. I can never find it!!!

:-D

By: Sharanjit

Sharanjit — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:46:03 +0000

Get rid of the caps lock key!