Creating Comfort:
The Making of the Logitech Comfort Wave Design
The story behind Logitech’s breakthrough keyboard design
eyboards. Around the world, we find these thin, rectangular objects in nearly
every home and office. For many of us, typing is so ingrained in our daily lives
that we don’t even think about doing it. Like driving, we do it automatically. But
think of the role keyboards play in our lives. Consider for a moment just how many ways
we use them. E-mails. Proposals. Spreadsheets. Instant messages. Web searches.
Browsing the Internet. Video games. In fact, according to a recent study at Harvard, for
Logitech, the average person types more than 2 million keystrokes every year. That’s
equal to five forty-hour weeks of sitting in a typing position.
While the rest of the world takes these input devices for granted, Logitech’s Switzerland-
based keyboard development team has dedicated endless hours – even years – to
improving and reinventing keyboard design and features to provide the most comfortable
typing and best computing experience possible.
A Tradition of Innovation
When Logitech entered the keyboard market in 1998, the company had already
established itself as a leader in mouse innovation. And it quickly demonstrated that it
could deliver innovative keyboards as well, beginning with its creation of a mouse-and-
keyboard bundle, which Logitech sells under the Desktop® trademark.. Today, many
other companies sell keyboard-and-mouse combinations and they even have a
dedicated section in the keyboard aisle.
Since entering the keyboard market, Logitech has steadily challenged the accepted
function and design of keyboards. In 2003, Logitech introduced new comfort features:
Zero Degree Tilt™ to address wrist extension, two-handed navigation to distribute work
more evenly between the right and left hands, and a redesigned 5-pack (the Home,
Delete, End, Page Up and Page Down keys) to minimize the distance traveled from
keyboard to mouse.
In 2004, in response to the computer’s increasing visibility in the home, the company
announced the highly designed Logitech® diNovo™ Media Desktop™. The recipient of
numerous design and technology awards, the keyboard incorporated sleek design with
advanced technology, such as a redesigned key mechanism, Bluetooth connectivity and
a separate MediaPad™ for controlling media on the computer. People who purchased
the diNovo desktop no longer had to hide their computer in a home office – instead, they
could proudly display it in common living areas.
Having worked since early 2005 on updating the diNovo design, in 2006, Logitech
announced the diNovo Edge™ keyboard, a significant evolution of the diNovo Media
Desktop. Another result of the Logitech Desktop team’s successful collaboration, the
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