What your handwriting says about you

What your handwriting says about you

Google announced a new app earlier today, called Google Handwriting Input. Only available for Android so far, it allows users to write on a touchscreen — smartphone or tablet, with or without a stylus — then interprets the handwriting into standard digital text. It...

‘Listening’ tables at meetings of the future

Looking for an exit strategy for the next boring roundtable meeting you are forced to attend? A new “listening table” developed by the New York Times R&D Lab doesn’t exactly give you a hall pass, but it does take note, literally, of all the good stuff and forces...
What we’ve learned so far…

What we’ve learned so far…

Sunday is Shift Key’s two-month anniversary. We’re excited about all the content marketing work that’s come our way thus far and looking toward the future with our shades firmly in place. We’ve already learned a couple of things along the way:...
We do more than create content.

We do more than create content.

We also like to make lemon crepes. And eat them. (Our CEO, Jan Risher, has written a weekly Sunday newspaper column since March 2002. Her column Sunday was about the lemon tree she planted a few years back and the lemon crepes she and her family make and enjoy,...
Do certain fonts remind you of certain places?

Do certain fonts remind you of certain places?

Do certain fonts remind you of certain places? More pointedly, can a typeface really represent what’s unique about a city? Remco can de Craats thinks so. Van de Craats, co-owner of one of the a design firm in Eindhoven, Netherlands, has been tasked with coming up with...