Ergonomics Without the Office Furniture Look
In my last post I talked about my switch to a mechanical keyboard and in that expressed that one of my chief concerns (and reasons for not getting one earlier) was the fact that the keyboard was not ergonomic. On further inspection, I concluded that the bulk of the problems related to keyboards in general had less to do with their own ergonomic features and more to do with the fact that the typical desk is too high to type on top of. By that, I mean that, unless you are exceptionally tall, typing with the keyboard directly on top of a standard desk means that your wrists will not end up angled downward towards the keyboard, thereby putting unnecessary strain on wrists, arms, etc. In my case, I had grown very accustomed to using wrist rests, and negatively sloped ergonomic keyboards (the negative slope is actually a really good thing, btw) - but because keyboard was still sitting too high, all that did was cause me to stop touch typing and get lazy with my wrists.