Richard- Friday, February 2, 2007, 8:22:32 AM, you wrote:
> Dan also shared this background article from Jakob Nielsen about the new > Office UI: > <http://www.useit.com/alertbox/wysiwyg.html> My take du jour: While I do like the new look of Office 2007, I don't find the Ribbons idea in Office all that revolutionary. Office has for years now had configurable toolbars, and if you get used to the icons you can use them instead of the menus. What Microsoft has done in the new Office is remove the redundancy. I think the true inheritor of the results-oriented interface Jakob Nielsen was talking about is the iPhone: a flat panel touchscreen that is context-configurable to the current application. If it's in phone mode you have a telephone keypad available. If it's in video mode the keypad is replaced by a full-screen video. Et cetera. It's a little box that fits in your pocket and can be whatever it needs to be at the moment. -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
