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

[James Melzer]

I'm not going to comment, except to say: http://www.apple.com/iwork/pages/ ...?

~ James

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On 11/28/06, Mark Schraad <mschraad at mac.com> wrote:
> 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:
>
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