Office 2007 design
March 12, 2008 1:45 pm GeneralI just watched the presentation on the Microsoft Office ribbon that Miguel pointed to earlier and I have to agree with him that it’s a great presentation on application design methodology, well worth watching. There a related series of articles on the UI design in Jensen Harris’s blog which is also worth reading (at least, so far).
Some amazing stuff in the article in particular was the amount of data collection they have done over the years – millions of clicks and keystrokes, yielding some surprising results that reinforce once more the lesson “we are not our users” (striking example: 80% of people save by clicking the floppy disk in the toolbar, only 20% of saves happen with the Ctrl-S keystroke).
I spotted a familiar voice doing some fanboying at 1:22:43 or so 🙂
March 12th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Hey, last summer (August?) there was some discussion at the OOo.org’s user experience mailing list, actually designing new GUI for it. There was a lot of usability related discussion, with some real insight on the argumentation as well. The mockups seem to be live still too. Go check them out.
Not quite Office2007, but a good step forward without “aping” the Microsoft.
March 12th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Someone had to, after that douchebaggy comment.