Modes And The Office 12 UI
A good analysis of the use of modes in Office 12 ...
"As soon as I saw the new Office 12 interface I questioned why you would add modes to a user interface when modes are so frowned on in usability - particularly by Jef Raskin. I was immediately banging my head against the table with the thought that to do anything in the new Office I'd have to figure out which mode the functionality was hidden under instead of just working with the menu categories that I was used to (no better than the ribbon modes but at least I'm used to them). Then I watched Scoble's video about the new office interface and felt a little better - hey, they've got a ton of user data to back them up, people do seem to work in different modes with Word and now the user interface matches the user model. Something just kept bugging me about it though.
This morning I came up with a theory of what I think is wrong. I think the Office team is right, people do use different modes when working with Office, and in fact software in general." continued ... (Via Symphonious)
"As soon as I saw the new Office 12 interface I questioned why you would add modes to a user interface when modes are so frowned on in usability - particularly by Jef Raskin. I was immediately banging my head against the table with the thought that to do anything in the new Office I'd have to figure out which mode the functionality was hidden under instead of just working with the menu categories that I was used to (no better than the ribbon modes but at least I'm used to them). Then I watched Scoble's video about the new office interface and felt a little better - hey, they've got a ton of user data to back them up, people do seem to work in different modes with Word and now the user interface matches the user model. Something just kept bugging me about it though.
This morning I came up with a theory of what I think is wrong. I think the Office team is right, people do use different modes when working with Office, and in fact software in general." continued ... (Via Symphonious)
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