“We got the keyboards ready pretty quickly. “That gets fairly clunky pretty quickly,” he says. When he began the project three years ago, Ahmed faced early challenges with displaying the keyboard properly: Urdu contains 39 letters written in Arabic script, making it difficult to fit on a smartphone screen designed for the 26-letter Roman alphabet. While most who grow up in Pakistan speak a local language as their native tongue, Ahmed spoke Urdu during his childhood in Lahore. He hopes the keyboard can help better represent non-Western languages in technology. Even after taking a job as a senior designer at Amazon, he’s continued his project to develop an functional Urdu keyboard. After graduating from Harvard with a master’s in design engineering in 2018, Zeerak Ahmed ’13 didn’t stop working on his master’s thesis.
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