Some embodiments include a touchscreen device (e.g., a projected capacitive sensor) with non-orthogonal U-drive and V-sense electrodes that intersect at an acute angle, θ. The touchscreen device includes a rectangular touch sensitive area with horizontal edge of length W and a vertical edge of length H. Some embodiments include a controller coupled to the touchscreen device that transmits signals via N drive channels, where N is an integer, where the N drive channels are communicatively coupled to P U-drive electrodes, and where P is an integer greater than or equal to N. Members of a subset of the P U-drive electrodes communicatively coupled to one of the N drive channels, intersect mutually exclusive sets of the V-sense electrodes. Motivated by signal-to-noise ratio considerations, values of acute angle, θ, are chosen such that signals corresponding to the drive signals traverse path lengths that are less than W plus H.