Scott JensonSep 22, 2023

Whenever I explain my #research at Google into mobile text editing, I'm usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile "Everyone can edit text on their phones, right? What's the problem?"

Text editing on mobile isn't ok. It's actually much worse than you think, an invisible problem no one appreciates. I wrote this post so you can understand why it's so important.
https://jenson.org/text
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The invisible problem – Scott Jenson

Show threadScott JensonSep 22, 2023
Here is a short demo of Eloquent, a new text editing prototype I was working on at Google that attempts to fix this issue:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9YPm0EghvU
Eloquent: Improving Text Editing on Mobile

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Show threadMatt Woelk

@scottjenson Have you had a look at the MessagEase keyboard?

I've found that swiping left/right on the spacebar to move one character at a time combined with swiping up on the backspace giving me a delete key (inverse of backspace) means that I can be imprecise with my finger taps but still very quickly do edits.

Additionally swipe-and-return on backspace deletes a whole word, which is very nice.

Sep 22, 2023 at 9:55pmWeb
Show threadScott JensonSep 23, 2023
@MattWoelk GBoard does all of those things as well