At the moment Vista has a very low adoption rate and a very high "Oh, my God -- let's go back to Windows!" rate...So, I think that at this point it makes a lot of sense to stick with the Windows standards...generally speaking.
However, if you're building an internal app for a group that will be required to use Vista then, I'd use the Vista standards....and... If there's anything in the Vista standard that you think is done better than it's done in the Windows standards, you might want to take this chance to incorporate it. ...or you can design for another operating system all together: *nix, OSX, CP/M ;-) kt At 10:50 AM -0800 12/11/07, Jerome Ryckborst wrote: >Thanks, Jennifer, and hello, all; I've just joined your list. > >I'm wondering if the ribbon is a solution for a large (overly >complex) set of features where the speed of user performance is not >a primary design driver? > >Also, I don't yet have Vista installed on my computer, so I confess >I'm not really sure what my Dev team (which is 16 hours ahead in >Australia; I'm in Canada) means when they say "Vista menus" -- is >this just a menu bar? > >My original question: > > One of my design teams is asking me: "Should we follow > the Office standard of the ribbon, the Vista standard of > the drop-down menu (menu bar), or a hybrid of the two? > > Wow, just what I always wanted: a vague question about > standards that has no right answer and huge consequences. > >-=- Jerome > >-----Original Message----- >From: Jenni Merrifield >Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 9:30 AM >Cc: Jerome Ryckborst >Subject: Office or Vista - That is the Question > >Yesterday, the following message came in on a local, but low >bandwidth, UE list I'm on: > > One of my design teams is asking me: "Should we follow > the Office standard of the ribbon, the Vista standard of > the drop-down menu (menu bar), or a hybrid of the two? > > Wow, just what I always wanted: a vague question about > standards that has no right answer and huge consequences. > >I thought the question might get more traction here, seeing as the >IxDA list has a much larger membership. I've CC'd Jerome, the >original poster, who you might want to include on any replies as I >don't know if he's on this list. > >:-j(enni) > >________________________________________________________________ >*Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* >February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA >Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ > >________________________________________________________________ >Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! >To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe >List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines >List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help -- ---------------- Katie Albers [EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
