For those folks interested in UI...
The local CHI group posted slide (2.8MB) and audio (84MB) downloads from
Jensen Harris's recent presentation on MS's UI redesign of Office.
http://www.baychi.org/calendar/20051213/
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia Design
I am still downloading this, since I usually find my interfaces
awkward, I often look into any resources that can help me build
better UIs...
In my opinion, the best MS Office interface was the Office:Mac
interface, far better than it's windows cousin... the inspector works
fine, things
Tonight the local CHI meeting, I listened to a presentation by Jensen
Harris, a key designer behind the new Microsoft Office user interface. He
presented a history of Word and Office and how it evolved into Office 2003,
and then went into a live demo of the new office apps sporting the ribbon
Fascinating...
Judy
--will read blog in the a.m. ...
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Scott Rossi wrote:
Tonight the local CHI meeting, I listened to a presentation by Jensen
Harris, a key designer behind the new Microsoft Office user interface.
snip
I wrote down a bunch of points that seemed like
Scott,
that's funny, we had a meeting with our MS TAM (tech. account mgr) for our
MS support contract.
His presentation was made in Office 12 beta (never crashed) - and his
words struck me as quite
funny - MS imposes new products on the poor MS employees PC - they should
eat their own dog
