Hello! this is my creative process journal—a personal documentation of the exploration, reflection, and growth behind Typing Type. It records the step-by-step progression of my project throughout the Year 3, documenting my step by step experimentations, discoveries, and shifts in thinking that helped shape both the work and myself as a designer.
The idea for this project began during my exchange at RMIT, where I was asked to choose an underappreciated object in the design industry. I chose the Command key—a small but powerful symbol of efficiency in digital workflows. That choice led me to question how such tools silently influence our habits, creativity, and the way we interact with technology.
This reflection expanded into a deeper investigation of the QWERTY keyboard layout, which was originally created to prevent typewriter jams by slowing users down. Despite more efficient alternatives, QWERTY remains dominant today—not because it's better, but because it's familiar. This resistance to change became central to Typing Type—a project that seeks to challenge default systems and invite new, more playful and mindful ways of typing.
Typing Type is my final year graduation project, born from an ordinary tool—the keyboard— and a desire to question the invisible systems that shape how we create.
What began as a simple investigation into a familiar object quickly unfolded into a deeper exploration of how design defaults—like typing interfaces, layouts, and typographic standards — silently influence our behaviours, habits, and even creativity. By examining the keyboard not just as a tool for input, but as a system embedded with historical and functional bias, this project challenges what we accept as "normal" in digital communication. Typing Type reimagines typing as an expressive act, offering alternative ways for text to behave, respond, and come alive on screen.