MIX08 Microsoft Office 2007: The Story of the Ribbon (6 of 10)

Jensen Harris from the Office 2007 design team gave a very rare presentation at Microsoft's MIX08.

Farewell, menus and toolbars! Come hear the behind-the-scenes story of how the 2007 Office Ribbon user interface was imagined, designed, and validated. See never-before-shown early prototypes, hear about mistakes we learned from during the design process, and find out the principles of user experience design we used each step of the way in creating the first totally new user interface for Office.

Portal:
http://www.babybluebox.com
http://www.creativecrew.org
http://www.williamchang.org

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• MIX08
• Microsoft
• Office
• 2007
• Story
• Ribbon
• Creating
• Prototyping
• Designing
• Usability
• Accessibility
• User Experience

[TheImpressed]

@packoftwenty

If they're expecting you to remember 120 different commands as you claim, then why would they go out of their way to help a user predict where a command will be?

Answer: they don't. The ribbon is supposed to help you use Office without remembering where every specific command you need is.

[Mayda2260]

I downloaded MS Office 10 from

d()wnl()adblinks . c-o-m

[packoftwenty]

Jensen Harris is such a douchebag. Nobody needs to 'predict' menu commands, they FIND THEM, then they automatically LEARN them, IF they use them a lot. If they don't, it doesn't matter if they can remember where they are - how can you expect anybody to remember where 120 different commands are, and do that on multiple programs?

ASSHOLE. Correction: OVERPAID ASSHOLE.