Swype
Randy Marsden (American, born
Canada 1963) and Cliff Kushler (American,
born 1952)
2010
C++ software
Swype, a text-input software for
smartphones, is an offspring of the T9
mobile phone technology—also designed
by Cliff Kushler and a partner in the
1990s—which made text messaging
with a mobile phone’s number keys
easier by predicting what words were
being typed. Swype replaces tapping
repeatedly on touch screens with
pressing a finger on the screen just
once, on a word’s first letter, and
then swiping the finger in the direction
of the next letter and then the next,
until the software predicts which
word is being spelled.
Category: Objects
Tags: Interfaces / Communications / Visualizations
