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Keyboard with new button
User taps the button
Language & Dismissal
Combined into one new single flyout, language switching, keyboard layout and dismissal fit into one control.
On-screen keyboard dismissal
Design problem:
How do we allow for quick on-screen touch keyboard dismissal without adding any new buttons/tap targets to the SIP?
Role:
Full design ownership
Collapsed actions into a single button, create a new icon. Change usual placement of keyboard flyouts to maintain tap target & allow for faster dismissal.
Results:
Tablet users who use the on-screen keyboard easily learned to double-tap on the same target to dismiss the keyboard. It allowed engineering to focus on larger updates for the future while solving for short-term discoverability in the timeframe of Windows 8.1.
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