How about KDE’s HIG?
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Don’t know about it. Need to give a look later. Have to get my 3D print into hands now, which I will share later if everything works as expected. 
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Sure, here it is once you are ready.
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I have a small to-go bag that I use to carry my L5 together with accessories (spare batteries, paper notebook, Franklin T10 mobile hotspot, etc), so I am hoping to find a keyboard that boosts my productivity when using emacs/terminal and also fits in my small bag, so that I can have a highly mobile workstation.
As I mentioned above, I ordered one to try, but it has not arrived yet. It is a corded USB qwerty keyboard that is smaller than most mini keyboards I have seen.
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What was your question supposed to be: if I agree with its design or if it would be an alternative for me to use (instead of Phosh)?
What I can tell in a short view, the concept seems to be much more worked out compared to Phoshs concept. And it’s very close to my view of design decisions. For example I also described things like this https://develop.kde.org/hig/layout/onehand/ for L5. Since our phone has a huge display (and even thickness matters), the area is different (it’s easier to reach the side where the phone gets hold compared to the other side). And in fact, they referenced a link from 2013 where phone displayes where smaller in general.
I think I agree with 95% of what KDE has in mind - at least those things I read about concept. Or let’s say the other way around: they confirm my experience for UX design.
Btw I think it makes sense to create a separate thread to this topic. Maybe a mod could split the topics since we’re already far away from keyboards.
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Mostly the former about GNOME vs. KDE design philosophy. If you would rather develop on the other side, here is a good place to start.
The point is that I agree on KDE design philosophy for almost a decade. But I really like where Phosh started. I would like to see it not just “functional somehow”, but rather have a minimum amount of complexity to match the complexity of phone form factor. But it doesn’t seem to be compatible to GNOME philosophy, since it’s designed for desktop/laptop form factor.
And to make another point: it’s not too far away from what I would like to have. But it prevents the “last but important step”. Also Phosh has a pro thing above Plasma Mobile. It starts at zero and doesn’t depend too much on Android. It could go another ways with similar experience (KDE is much closer to Android like behavior, if I’m not wrong - even if I trust KDE to make the things better than Android).
If I would have the skill and time, I would create a down fork of Phosh to implement those things that are a step above GNOME philosophy. But I learned C 2 weeks ago in a 2 hour crash course. It’s enough to fix details, but I’m not sure how far I would come to rewrite a whole part of UI. Also said that I have not the time right now for any of such projects.
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That’s cool!
I don’t think it would work for me, as it lacks keys that I frequently use for the terminal/coding: alt, ctrl, tab… etc.
Also the price is… not low. Lol.
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It’s multiple layer and configurable
configurable - any key can be ctrl (however u program it)
layers - key ‘A’ can act as ‘A’ on layer1 and as ‘1’ on layer2 (layers are switched by function key)
and I agree about price lol
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I am typing this from my newly opened keyboard 
The keyboard is perfectly functional, although a converter from USB A to USB C is required.
I miss some keys when typing, because they are so small, and the keys are rather stiff. Much stiffer than I expected. We’ll see how I like the typing experience over time. As for portability, it fits in my little bag perfectly, so I am looking forward to taking it with me along with my phone when I go out.
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