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sure

It’s very good. But…

Every key should highlight in green, e.g. accept.

No clipping at the edge of the display!

Wallaby was mostly a display with multitouch. To show pixels, it needed a tether, like an old VGA monitor cable. This tether wrapped a 30-pin cable that went to the wallaby and a USB cable that went to a bare board that was several inches square. That board connected to a G3 Mac.

If the interface works right, people will develop a feel for how it works that goes deeper than thought. Using the software can move closer to instinct, freeing up a person’s thinking so they can focus on their actual goal.

You could call it “Apple-detail territory”. I call it “getting things right”. Being mindful to how sensitive we all are to manipulating objects with our fingers.

yes

Also, there needs to be a hysteresis between these direction changes, i.e. when I switch letters, I need to move back more in the other direction to get it to switch back. The letters should never “jitter” between each other by moving a pixel or two.

Same height as the left and right directions. I'm very busy right now, so sadly, I don't have time to make a sketch. But the idea is to make these different popup shapes sympathetic to each other, so that when they pop between each other in one frame, it feels like there was an animation.

The middle letter option would also pop up, not just turn green. Also, the popup would stay held as long as the touch stayed down. Right now, I can drag outside the bounds of the button and the key pops back down and enters its letter. That's not right. The touch up controls that.

Space would add go into the middle box, not the top. Accept was the only way to move that text to the main entry area. Seems goofy, right? Yeah, it was.

Eventually, you could move the cursor with the loupe, i.e. the popup magnifier. But that didn't exist at the time of this demo. There was no backspace either. There was no going back. Heh. No capitals either. This was *early* in the process.

No animation. It just popped—but your eye filled in the details and it felt like it “moved” because of the shapes.

try this

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

Off now to do more of the same. Oh, and some marketer should get a hold of “claude-3.7-sonnet MAX”. Awful name for such an amazing piece of tech.

But having the AI do the grunt work made it easy. It took my detailed directions about what I wanted, and produced a diff that was simple to review. Yep, yep, yep, commit, merge.

This is not the sort of thing I typically would have done on a Friday afternoon. Usually, I would have waited for the morning when I was fresh and thinking at my clearest and best.

Just yesterday afternoon, I enthusiastically tackled a little thing of taking in a new parameter in our frontend code and winding it though to our backend code, right to a place where I now use that value to make a decision in the code.