TypeCase

A keyboard that has just 5 buttons, instead of 50. Rather than typing each key individually, you press chords just like on a guitar or piano. Built right into a phone case, it allows users to type without looking, with only one hand - and even in your pocket.

Designed with amputees and hemiplegics in mind, it simplifies a traditional keyboard down to a beautifully intuitive and effortless interaction. Integrating the board into a phone case, it reintroduces tactility back to smartphones, offering the visually impaired a discrete alternative to the more stigmatising voice-to-text methods.

Dougie is a multi-disciplinary Designer and Mechanical Engineer, with a fondness for smart and charming consumer product design. Looking to the future he wants to challenge traditional HCI methods, and think up new ways we can co-exist with technology.

At his core, he believes that design and engineering should serve society, and improve quality of life through human-centred-design.