Eddie Santos author Atticus Harrigan author 2020-may text English eng European Language Resources association Marseille, France conference publication 979-10-95546-35-1 Plains Cree is a less-resourced language in Canada. To promote its usage online, we describe previous keyboard layouts for typing Plains Cree syllabics on smartphones. We describe our own solution whose development was guided by ergonomics research and corpus statistics. We then describe a case study in which three participants used a previous layout and our own, and we collected quantitative and qualitative data. We conclude that, despite observing accuracy improvements in user testing, introducing a brand new paradigm for typing Plains Cree syllabics may not be ideal for the community. santos-harrigan-2020-design https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.sltu-1.12 2020-may 88 96