7/11/2023 0 Comments Urdu keyboard“We got the keyboards ready pretty quickly. ![]() “That gets fairly clunky pretty quickly,” he says. ![]() When he began the project three years ago, Ahmed faced early challenges with displaying the keyboard properly: Urdu contains 39 letters written in Arabic script, making it difficult to fit on a smartphone screen designed for the 26-letter Roman alphabet. While most who grow up in Pakistan speak a local language as their native tongue, Ahmed spoke Urdu during his childhood in Lahore. He hopes the keyboard can help better represent non-Western languages in technology. ![]() Even after taking a job as a senior designer at Amazon, he’s continued his project to develop an functional Urdu keyboard. After graduating from Harvard with a master’s in design engineering in 2018, Zeerak Ahmed ’13 didn’t stop working on his master’s thesis.
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