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

[Robert Hoekman, Jr.]

Well said - this is exactly what I've been trying to accomplish at GoDaddy.

-r-

On 11/29/06, John Grøtting <g at g-s.de> wrote:
>
> 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.
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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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