Fantastic posting! "frelled?"
Really really great. I'd say my experience has overlapped about 90% of your observations. One area you bring up that has not been discussed is the local toobar. While I agree with your points that having the toolbar local, even here, MS has not nuanced the interaction as I would have expected. As a similar exercise, go ahead and invoke the toolbar by highlighting a word and drifting your mouse cursor to the left and above the selection. So far so good, if your system works like mine. Now, move your mouse far away from the selection - the toolbar nicely fades away. Now, move your mouse back to the selection (keep the selection, just drift the mouse back). If your system works like mine, no toolbar. Huh? Several other possible interactions around the local toolbar were not considered such that to re-invoke the amazing disappearing toolbar requires a re-selection. I suspect that there is something akin to the rollover message algorithm going on here, but unfortunately not completely designed. Of all the Office 2007 innovations, the local toolbar remains the most intriguing. Leo -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alan Wexelblat Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Microsoft's Ribbon? ... Common things are presented directly in the context in which you're working. As long as you want to do a common thing you are generally good to go. If, however, you want to do an uncommon thing, you're frelled. ________________________________________________________________ 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
