International Keyboard Design (Research and designs)

Problem

The device touchscreen needed custom on-screen keyboards for 14 languages, including Cyrillic and CJK scripts, with no off-the-shelf solution available. Operators also needed to enter accented characters on a small, glove-friendly screen.

Solution

I researched each language's character set and designed all 14 keyboards to fit the 800x480 display with glove-safe key sizing. A "long press" gesture handled accent selection. Layouts were validated by international HFE teams, with very few usability issues reported.

Tools

Photoshop, Animate,  Azure