[IxDA Discuss] Critiquing the Office 2007 (was Re: Microsoft tolicense Office 2007 UI system)

[Mark Schraad]

Looked at this for the first time today and would have to agree with Dan. This is a remarkeble interface given a less than stellar history. I like most everything about it but the visual noise. I probably wold have done the visual treatment differently, but most of us likely would.

What I really like is, as a minimal word user, everything I ever use is on the main menu screen. I am sure they did that just for me. 

Mark


>I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I think the Office  
>2007 reboot is probably the best interaction design work to come out  
>of Microsoft in a long while. It's certainly the most major refresh  
>of a major software suite since...well, I don't recall. If you look  
>at the design decisions that were made--and HOW and WHY they were  
>made--it's pretty impressive. Jensen Harris's blog is required  
>reading on the subject, and should probably be required reading for  
>all interaction designers: