Comments on: The new new Office 2007 user interface http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/01/07/the-new-new-office-2007-user-interface/ Niko Nyman's blog on shifting topics. Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:24:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Niko http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/01/07/the-new-new-office-2007-user-interface/comment-page-1/#comment-14477 Niko Mon, 08 Jan 2007 13:04:24 +0000 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/01/07/the-new-new-office-2007-user-interface/#comment-14477 <p>Everybody does.</p> Everybody does.

]]> By: Tina Aspiala http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/01/07/the-new-new-office-2007-user-interface/comment-page-1/#comment-14475 Tina Aspiala Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:21:49 +0000 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/01/07/the-new-new-office-2007-user-interface/#comment-14475 <p>I miss Word 5.</p> I miss Word 5.

]]> By: Niko http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/01/07/the-new-new-office-2007-user-interface/comment-page-1/#comment-14317 Niko Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:51:17 +0000 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/01/07/the-new-new-office-2007-user-interface/#comment-14317 <p>Previews are nice, but the only difference to Keynote themes is that you don't have to click on the options. Hardly anything special. Besides, this is a feature that drastically changes what you see on the screen, but it isn't a feature that anyone could impress me with, from a UI design standpoint. Changing a theme is something you do maybe once for each document. But if they had somehow reinvented something like copy & paste, which you easily use a 100 times for each document, <em>that</em> would be impressive.</p> <p>MS was talking about forgoing menus and toolbars completely, which sounded very intriguing. The result you see, where you say "menus and toolbars are in their old place", actually <strong>is</strong> their vision of "forgoing menus and toolbars". That's why I said all they did was reorder things and market it as something spectacular.</p> Previews are nice, but the only difference to Keynote themes is that you don’t have to click on the options. Hardly anything special. Besides, this is a feature that drastically changes what you see on the screen, but it isn’t a feature that anyone could impress me with, from a UI design standpoint. Changing a theme is something you do maybe once for each document. But if they had somehow reinvented something like copy & paste, which you easily use a 100 times for each document, that would be impressive.

MS was talking about forgoing menus and toolbars completely, which sounded very intriguing. The result you see, where you say “menus and toolbars are in their old place”, actually is their vision of “forgoing menus and toolbars”. That’s why I said all they did was reorder things and market it as something spectacular.

]]> By: Orion http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/01/07/the-new-new-office-2007-user-interface/comment-page-1/#comment-14315 Orion Sun, 07 Jan 2007 09:39:19 +0000 http://www.nnyman.com/personal/2007/01/07/the-new-new-office-2007-user-interface/#comment-14315 <p>I checked the new MS Office UI at DigiExpo last year and really thought the live preview of different layouts is something cool and new. At least something more creative than what comes to the UI design of Vista. It seems they didn't introduce that feature in the article linked above. You can get an idea about it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juska/293261792/ Basically you roll your mouse (no clicking) over the different layouts and you'll see immediately how they'll look like. And here http://www.flickr.com/photos/juska/293262269/in/photostream/ menus and toolbars are still in their old place.</p> I checked the new MS Office UI at DigiExpo last year and really thought the live preview of different layouts is something cool and new. At least something more creative than what comes to the UI design of Vista. It seems they didn’t introduce that feature in the article linked above. You can get an idea about it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/juska/293261792/ Basically you roll your mouse (no clicking) over the different layouts and you’ll see immediately how they’ll look like. And here http://www.flickr.com/photos/juska/293262269/in/photostream/ menus and toolbars are still in their old place.

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