Formatting: An Act In Three Plays
Another good article in the Office 12 User Interface Design series ...
"One challenge that some people have raised against a gallery-based approach to formatting is that "all of the documents are going to look the same."
In today's episode, I'll explain why I'm not overly concerned about this and in the process share with you something we've learned about how people approach beautifying documents that I like to call "Three Stage Formatting."
A pleasure of working at a place with the resources of Microsoft is that our relatively small UI team has access to a team of researchers and usability engineers that can help us frame questions and find out the answers to them. And not just through the well-known "one way mirror usability test" either. An innovative new UI has required innovative usability and research practices as well--in a future set of articles I'll describe some of these techniques or perhaps even get a guest writer to chime in." continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
"One challenge that some people have raised against a gallery-based approach to formatting is that "all of the documents are going to look the same."
In today's episode, I'll explain why I'm not overly concerned about this and in the process share with you something we've learned about how people approach beautifying documents that I like to call "Three Stage Formatting."
A pleasure of working at a place with the resources of Microsoft is that our relatively small UI team has access to a team of researchers and usability engineers that can help us frame questions and find out the answers to them. And not just through the well-known "one way mirror usability test" either. An innovative new UI has required innovative usability and research practices as well--in a future set of articles I'll describe some of these techniques or perhaps even get a guest writer to chime in." continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
Microsoft Office12.
2 Comments:
Glad you find the article interesting. Thought I'd point out that the "Office 12" picture you show is FrontPage which, unfortunately, is not one of the programs that has the new UI I'm talking about. :)
For pictures of apps using the new Office 12 UI, check out http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/uioverview.mspx
Thanks, great site...
Thanks Jensen. Great catch. I changed the image as per your link.
Bob
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