RE: (Slightly OT) Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame

2009-04-10 Thread Callie Bertsche
*Slightly off-topic* For the record, although I agree that FM is far and away the more professional and versatile tool for extended publications, I have been won over to MS Word's ribbon. I also used to think of it as unintuitive - but after watching the video below and studying their UI design,

Re: (Slightly OT) Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame

2009-04-10 Thread quills
For the effort they put into redesigning their user interface, I would have massively preferred that they hold off on the eye candy and addressed more fundamental problems with the application. However, as a user, what I prefer isn't what Microsoft normally listens to. All of that work could

Re: (Slightly OT) Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame

2009-04-10 Thread quills
I think it's also telling that corporations don't normally train you on New GUI in an app. IT tosses it over the fence and the user has to cope on their own without much support at all, and little documentation. This video isn't useful to most users. It isn't available to most users. I think

(Slightly OT) Any up to date comparisons of Word and Frame

2009-04-10 Thread qui...@airmail.net
I think it's also telling that corporations don't normally train you on "New" GUI in an app. IT tosses it over the fence and the user has to cope on their own without much support at all, and little documentation. This video isn't useful to most users. It isn't available to most users. I think