I've been on this kick for a long time. A few years ago I was exploring a UI design tool that was entirely keyboard-driven, using pneumonic keychords inspired by Vim: https://github.com/danielvaughn/stride

My experience is that while it's awesome to have really deep keyboard-driven experience, it can't _only_ be that. You need some graphical controls to help guide users.

TUI, GUI.. we need a marriage of both, with configurable levels of integration, which controls to favour TUI or GUI. If it's well done, no need for a mouse, but nice and easy to have. Add to this a thin glove checking for certain movement patterns when the user is not typing and voice to set certain things - all at once.

Modern Computer keyboard is one of the best and most brilliant piece of ui ever invented.

Far beyond mouse, stylus wich are themselves infinitely superior to touchscreen.

yes totally agree. I build macOS apps and found out that not every apps support this. One of the reason people buy my file search app https://www.fileminutes.com/ is, it is fully keyboard driven. I'm trying the same with my new AI chat app https://www.vinaa.ai/

I really like this kind of thing but I wish there were more tutorials to help get good with keyboard shortcuts. vimtutor was lifesaving

A few years back I started to try to use my computer by not touching the mouse. Ended up writing a bunch of Tampermonkey scripts for my most used web pages to add fast keyboard navigation shortcuts.

Also a lot of webpages have it already built in, by pressing "?" they show a nice overlay. For example github and gmail have it.

For github I still ended up adding a quite a few more shortcuts.

> The takeaway is simple. Do not compromise on the user experience you provide with your application

Same thing I hear from everyone.

"You can't compromise on UX" - UX experts.

"You can't compromise on security" - Security experts.

"You can't compromise on Accessibility" - a11y experts.

We gotta make trade-offs, and I gotta get my thing shipped (for me I learn toward security for my service)

The one UI invention many web UIs now add is the universal command search bar. I’m most familiar from it from Jetbrains IDEs where it’s been for over a decade and it is a remarkable upgrade on browsing menus. With the KeyPromoter extension on I even learned the keyboard shortcut over time. Good UI pattern and now this universal command search is everywhere: Cloudflare, Mercury, etc.

Love it.

I think we should also be finding ways to make things keyboard-driven that currently require a mouse. My side project is a keyboard centric flowchart editor which tries to merge the two between something typically 2D with pixel coordinates (normal flowchart software) and fitting it into a grid that has discrete coords so you can navigate with arrow keys.

Shortcat.app fills some of this gap.

I still haven't found generic solutions to selecting and copy-pasting text using the keyboard only though, when the text is not in a textbox/area.

I had used a vim-like plugin in firefox that let you do that somewhat, but nothing OS level.