I'm In Louvre! (Galleries: Part 1 of 3)
About the user interface design of Office 12 and its use of a Ribbon navigation view ...
"As I mentioned last week, the Office 12 Ribbon was designed to host a variety of control types. Most of these control types have been around as common controls in Windows for over a decade: push buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, edit controls, combo boxes, etc.
In addition to these, we designed a new control type for the Office 12 user interface that was conceived from the start in partnership with the Ribbon. This control is called the "gallery" and it's debatably the single most important concept in the Office 12 UI. It is the Ribbon and the gallery together through which the user interface presents the power of Office in a way that more people can take advantage it.
Anyway, at its heart, the gallery is a simple concept: a control designed to present a choice to the user visually. The most familiar-looking flavor of gallery looks somewhat like a menu with better graphics; it's called a "dropdown gallery."" continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
"As I mentioned last week, the Office 12 Ribbon was designed to host a variety of control types. Most of these control types have been around as common controls in Windows for over a decade: push buttons, checkboxes, radio buttons, edit controls, combo boxes, etc.
In addition to these, we designed a new control type for the Office 12 user interface that was conceived from the start in partnership with the Ribbon. This control is called the "gallery" and it's debatably the single most important concept in the Office 12 UI. It is the Ribbon and the gallery together through which the user interface presents the power of Office in a way that more people can take advantage it.
Anyway, at its heart, the gallery is a simple concept: a control designed to present a choice to the user visually. The most familiar-looking flavor of gallery looks somewhat like a menu with better graphics; it's called a "dropdown gallery."" continued ... (Via Jensen Harris)
Office 12 drop down gallery.
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