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

[John Grøtting]

A friend of mine at Microsoft who works on the UI team, explains that  
they are slowly evolving their development process. Originally, the  
applications were designed by software engineers and the UI people  
basically added icons. Then, the UI team slowly got involved earlier  
and had a greater influence on the features. In 2007 we see that  
there are real "UI features". What I mean is that there are  
interesting developments in the interface that are purely centered  
around making life easier and not about adding functionality.

John Grøtting

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Am 29.11.2006 um 15:29 schrieb Adrian Howard:

>
> On 28 Nov 2006, at 17:48, David Malouf wrote:
> [snip]
>> My own take after using Office 2007 almost exclusively for a few
>> months
>> now is that while the beta was buggy the premises were very very
>> sound.
> [snip]
>
> Ditto. While it's not something aimed at me it's the first MS product
> UI (that's come out of MS rather than being a bought-in product) that
> actually feels designed.
>
> Adrian
>
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