Back toward the end of 2006, there was some fairly favorable discussion about the changes in Office 2007's GUI's (ref. http://www.ixda.org/discuss.php?post=12762). It's two years later now, and at least one segment of users that I know has a lot of mixed feelings about those changes. Specifically, technical communicators. Indeed, since Office 2007 was introduced, add-ons like AddInTools' Classic Menus for Office 2007 (http://tinyurl.com/36thmw) were introduced to offset what might be considered usability issues with the new version of Office; and Microsoft themselves have introduced Flash-based online help tools mapping the functionality between Office's older and newer GUIs (e.g., http://tinyurl.com/y85r6y). In that thousands of hours of usability work apparently went into Office 2007 before its introduction, what do you folks think... was the effort successful, is it more a matter of the demographics (personas?) associated with folks like, e.g., technical communicators?
Btw, I'm a technical communicator myself, anal when I have to be. But I wouldn't consider myself stereotypically anal 8^) Jan C. ________________________________________________________________ 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
