Sunday, January 11, 2015

FLOKI: The Next Frontier


As we promised at the end of the year, FLOKI is now a swipe-based system.  Our first design required the user to occasionally have to push two buttons at a time to work the system.  That is now a thing of the past.  Instead, we have introduced a "chain-swiping" system. Here's a video demo of how this works:




From the video, you'll see that an email username and complex password is no problem for this 6-button keyboard.  There are capital letters mixed in with special characters and numbers.  For a standard virtual keyboard, you would have to push the SHIFT key and also switch between multiple keyboards in order to type in the email and password.



The best thing here is that the system is not reliant on "autocomplete" functions that have to guess what you're trying to type in.  A lot of your existing alternative swipe keyboard systems  and apps (such as Swype, Swiftykey, and Minuum) all have to guess what you're trying to type as you move your finger across the keyboard.  With FLOKI Swipe, even with the small space and only 6 "keys," there is no guesswork involved.

COMING UP NEXT:  Working with FLOKI Swipe.

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