Keep the familiar writing tool, and add new ways to play.
These studies bring the visual language of DJing to the keyboard itself: its layout, its keycaps, and the symbols printed on them.
Rather than replacing the keyboard and mouse, this work looks for small ways to make writing feel more tactile, playful, and connected to remix culture.
Custom keyboard
One prototype keeps a standard typing layout and builds a rotary knob and a slider into the same board, so blending, scrubbing, or adjusting material inside LiteraryDJ never means leaving the keys.
Writing first
The experiment is about adding expressive gestures while keeping the familiar parts of typing and editing close at hand.
A single keycap can change how a familiar key reads, through its shape, material, color, and the symbols printed on it.
An individual cap or a small set can float as a 3D object, making shape and printed symbols easy to inspect.
Shape + symbols
Words such as sample, cut, loop, and remix mark the music keys, in colors and shapes that suit the rest of the board.