Some might have been favorable - I thought the Office 2007 redesign was terrible - so much so that as soon as I could afford it, I bought a Mac - Specifically b/c of the redesigned GUI in Office 07 - and mostly b/c of the ribbon.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 4:38 PM, Jan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? > -- ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel: +1.617.281.1281 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: semanticwill gtalk: semanticwill twitter: semanticwill skype: semanticwill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ 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
