Logitech Desktop Wave Making of Wave

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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