The symbol placements feel semi-random, the letters falling outside the compass (locale letters and z) feel random, and the relationships of the other drag letters feels semi-random... to me.
Pafkata mentioned some nice mnemonics; if the drag mappings aren't that important to efficiency one could utilize that to make it even more so. For instance:
A suggestion of more intuitive drag mappings for MessagEase based on letter shapes/sounds.
I think some of the drags are optimized for efficiency and should be, but most shouldn't need that. And both could be realized at the same time with a little cleverness. For myself, I'll still prefer two-by-two letter rows for the drags.
It's nice if drag bigrams aren't on back-and-forth drags I think, as that cramps me up a bit. But on the other hand, back-and-forth drags are the common way of capitalizing letters so they can't be all bad. :)
Last edited by DreymaR (07-Feb-2013 15:00:09)